The treatment of wartime brain wounds: Traditional versus minimal debridement

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 112-119

  Carey, Michael E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Debridement; Gunshot wounds; Penetrating; War wounds

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; DEBRIDEMENT; DURA MATER; FATALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRAN; IRAQ; ISRAEL; LEBANON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGITIS; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VIET NAM; WAR; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 0041621498     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(03)00352-5     Document Type: Article

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