Japan Coma Scale as a grading scale of subarachnoid hemorrhage: A way to determine the scale

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 509-515

  Takagi, Kiyoshi ^a   Aoki, Makoto ^d   Ishii, Teruyuki ^d   Nagashima, Yukie ^d   Narita, Koji ^d   Nakagomi, Tadayoshi ^d   Tamura, Akira ^d   Yasui, Nobuyuki ^b   Hadeishi, Hiromu ^d   Taneda, Mamoru ^c   Sano, Keiji ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN AND BLOOD VESSELS AKITA   (Japan)

^c KINKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Glasgow Coma Scale; Grade; Japan Coma Scale; Outcome; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

AGE FACTORS; COMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 13144262874     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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