Prognosis of brain stem lesion in children with head injury

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 174-178

  Woischneck, Dieter ^a   Klein, Susan ^a   Reißberg, Steffen ^a   Peters, Brigitte ^a   Avenarius, Stefan ^a   Günther, Gudrun ^a   Firsching, Raimung ^a  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain stem lesion; Children; Head injury; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0037741122     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-002-0703-z     Document Type: Article

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