Intracerebral pneumocephalus following a head injury: Case report

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 425-429

  Takinami, Kenji ^a   Hasegawa, Takeshi ^a   Miyamori, Tadao ^a   Matumoto, Tetuya ^a   Arakawa, Yasuaki ^a   Sugino, Minoru ^b  

^a TOYAMA CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Head injury; Intracerebral pneumocephalus; MRI; Repair

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FALLING; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SKULL FRACTURES;

EID: 0037386552     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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