A different approach to missile induced head injuries

Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 397-409

  Pabuscu, Yüksel ^a   Bulakbasi, Nail ^a   Kocaoǧlu, Murat ^a   Üstünsöz, Bahri ^a   Tayfun, Cem ^a  

^a GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Angiography; Computed tomography; Embolization; Gunshot wound; Head injury; Magnetic resonance imaging; Missile wound

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; MISSILES; TISSUE;

MORBIDITY;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLISTICS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HEMORRHAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; MISSILE WOUND; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPTIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037785211     PISSN: 08956111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-6111(03)00015-6     Document Type: Article

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