Outcome after shunt implantation in severe head injury with post-traumatic hydrocephalus

Brain Injury

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 345-354

  Tribl, Gotthard ^a,b,c   Oder, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AUVA Soziale Unfallversicherung   (Austria)

^c Rehabilitationszentrum Meidling   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BLEEDING; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIOPLASTY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ENCEPHALITIS; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034118077     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/026990500120637     Document Type: Article

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