Fracture of skull base with delayed multiple cranial nerve palsies

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 440-442

  Yildirim, Altan ^a   Gurelik, Mustafa ^a   Gumus, Cesur ^a   Kunt, Tanfer ^a  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Delayed multiple nerve palsies; Skull base fractures

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NOSE FEEDING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PEDIATRICS; PETROUS BONE; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TEMPORAL BONE; VAGUS NERVE;

CHILD; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DEGLUTITION DISORDERS; FACIAL PARALYSIS; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; PETROUS BONE; SKULL FRACTURE, BASILAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOICE DISORDERS;

EID: 23044502561     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000169435.36938.6d     Document Type: Article

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