Clinical study on intracranial air in the severe head injury

Brain and Nerve

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 615-619

  Shuto, Takashi ^a   Kitsuta, Yoichi ^a   Yoshida, Toshiyuki ^a   Suzuki, Noriyuki ^a   Sugiyama, Mitsugi ^a   Yamamoto, Isao ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Air; CT; Head injury; Pneumocephalus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARANASAL SINUS; PETROUS BONE; SKULL BASE; SKULL SCINTISCANNING; SPHENOID; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032814550     PISSN: 00068969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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