Intermediate and long-term outcome in traumatic brain injury is not influenced by additional multiple organ injury

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 116-119

  Lippert Gruner M ^a   Wedekind, C ^a   Wenzel, S C ^a   Lefering, R ^b   Klug, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Lungenklinik Merheim   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Multiple organ injury; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL FRACTURE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036439794     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2002-35825     Document Type: Article

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