Penetrating Head Injury Caused by Bear Claws: Case Report

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1178-

  Hayashi, Yasuhiko ^a   Fujisawa, Hironori ^a   Tohma, Yasuo ^a   Yamashita, Junkoh ^a   Inaba, Hideo ^a  

^a Kanazawa University   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; POVIDONE IODINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BEAR; BRAIN CONTUSION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISINFECTION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; LACERATION; PENETRATING TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANIMALS; CEFOTAXIME; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINDAMYCIN; CRANIOTOMY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FACIAL INJURIES; FEMALE; FISTULA; FRACTURES, COMMINUTED; FRONTAL BONE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HOOF AND CLAW; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URSIDAE;

EID: 0346099522     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.TA.0000025324.27227.D4     Document Type: Article

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