Elderly patients with severe head injury in coma from the outset - Has anything changed?

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 604-607

  Ushewokunze, S ^a   Nannapaneni, R ^a   Gregson, B A ^a   Stobbart, L ^a   Chambers, I R ^a   Mendelow, A D ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age and outcome; Elderly trauma; Severe head injury

Indexed keywords

AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMA; CONTUSION; DISABILITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 11944250159     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02688690400022763     Document Type: Review

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