Pupillary abnormality on admission and brain bulging during surgery as unfavourable predictors in patients treated with hypothermia: A retrospective review of 81 patients with severe head injury

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 143, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1229-1235

  Matsumae, M ^a   Ishizaka, H ^a   Shiramizu, H ^a   Shibata, M ^a   Tsugane, R ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain bulging; Head injury; Hypothermia; Outcome; Pupillary abnormality

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; NEURORADIOLOGY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL DISEASE; PUPIL REFLEX; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL DISORDERS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035666472     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007010100019     Document Type: Article

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