Civilian gunshot wounds to the head

Neurochirurgie

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 201-207

  Dosoglu M ^a,c   Orakdogen M ^b   Somay, H ^b   Ates O ^b   Ziyal, I ^a  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HAYDARPASA NUMUNE HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c Valievleri Baskent Sok   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Gunshot wounds; Outcome; Penetrating craniocerebral injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INFANT; MALE; MORTALITY; MYDRIASIS; RESPIRATION DEPRESSION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0345062289     PISSN: 00283770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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