Management of skull base fractures

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 23-41

  Kerman, Memduh ^a   Cirak, Bayram ^a   Dagtekin, Ahmet ^a  

^a NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Basal skull fracture; Cerebrospinal fistula; Cranial nerve injury; Intracranial traumatic vascular injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036171731     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013414-200203000-00003     Document Type: Article

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