The management of immediate post-traumatic seizures in children following minor head injury - Time for a multi-center study? [1]

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 18, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 109-110

  Chiaretti, Antonio ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; LORAZEPAM; OXYGEN; PHENYTOIN;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETTER; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OXYGENATION; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK MANAGEMENT; TIME; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; SEIZURES;

EID: 0036555994     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0561-8     Document Type: Letter

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