Minor head trauma in anticoagulated patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 121-124

  Garra, Gregory ^a   Nashed, Ashraf H ^a   Capobianco, Leo ^a  

^a MORRISTOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Intracranial injury; Minor head trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME;

EID: 0033024979     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb01048.x     Document Type: Article

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