Serum neuron-specific enolase as a predictor of intracranial lesions in children with head trauma: A pilot study

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 816-820

  Fridriksson, Theodore ^a   Kini, Narendra ^a   Walsh Kelly, Christine ^a   Hennes, Halim ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Enolase; Head trauma; Intracranial lesions; Serum neuron specific enolase

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PILOT STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

EID: 0033921560     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2000.tb02276.x     Document Type: Article

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