Significance of shock in head-injured patients with skull fracture

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 133-139

  Yanagawa, Youichi ^a   Sakamoto, Toshihisa ^a   Saitoh, Daizoh ^a   Terai, Chikanori ^a   Okada, Yoshiaki ^a   Nawashiro, Hiroshi ^a   Shima, Katsuji ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Convexity fracture; Head injury; Shock; Skull base fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM INJURY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SHOCK; SKULL FRACTURE;

EID: 0034072995     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.133     Document Type: Article

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