Traumatic head injury in the anticoagulated elderly patient: A lethal combination

American Surgeon

Volumn 67, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 1098-1100

  Karni, Amir ^a   Holtzman, Robert ^a   Bass, Thomas ^a   Zorman, Greg ^a   Carter, Lee ^a   Rodriguez, Luis ^a   Bennett Shipman, Vicki J ^a   Lottenberg, Lawrence ^a  

^a Memorial Regional Trauma Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 0035514879     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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