Post-traumatic brain stem distortion: A case report

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 613-616

  Sato, Mitsuo ^a,b   Kodama, Namio ^a,b   Yamaguchi, Katsuhiko ^a,b  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OHTA NISHINOUCHI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain stem distortion; Clivus fracture; Magnetic resonance imaging; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CASE REPORT; CLIVUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MESENCEPHALON; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033050752     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(98)00091-3     Document Type: Article

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