Medical aspects of the minimally conscious state in children

Brain and Development

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 535-545

  Ashwal, Stephen ^a  

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

Author keywords

Brain injury; Children; Coma; Infants; Minimally conscious state; Unconsciousness; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

AGYRIA; AKINETIC MUTISM; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBELLUM ATROPHY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INTELLIGENCE; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METABOLIC DISORDER; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; VERBALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 1642308610     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0387-7604(03)00095-0     Document Type: Review

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