Pediatric vegetative state: Epidemiological and clinical issues

NeuroRehabilitation

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 349-360

  Ashwal, Stephen ^a,b  

^a LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN METABOLISM; CONVALESCENCE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DIALYSIS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUTRITION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RESUSCITATION; SELF CONCEPT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 13444310762     PISSN: 10538135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/nre-2004-19412     Document Type: Article

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