Management and classification of children with head injury

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 430-436

  Falk, Ann Charlotte ^a   Cederfjall C ^b   vom Wendt, L ^b,c   Klang Soderkvist B ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Classification; Paediatric; Symptoms; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; CHILD; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 21344442423     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-1142-4     Document Type: Article

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