Intracranial placement of a nasogastric tube. A lesson to be re-learnt?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 147, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 573-574

  Rahimi Movaghar, V ^a   Boroojeny, S B ^a   Moghtaderi, A ^a   Keshmirian, B ^a  

^a ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN INJURY; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHMOID BONE; FALLING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; MALE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL FRACTURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COMA; ETHMOID BONE; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; SKULL FRACTURE, BASILAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18044371226     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-004-0463-5     Document Type: Article

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