Long term outcome in patients with severe head injury and bilateral fixed dilated pupils

Neurology India

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 430-435

  Sousa, J ^a   Sharma, R R ^a   Pawar, S J ^a   Mahapatra, A ^a   Lad, S D ^a  

^a KHOULA HOSPITAL   (Oman)

Author keywords

Dilated; Outcome; Pupil; Severe head injury; Unreactive

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CHILD; CISTERNA MAGNA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MYDRIASIS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC SHOCK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PUPIL DISORDERS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 0037005387     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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