Children and television tipovers: A significant and preventable cause of long-term neurological deficits

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 103 PEDIATRICS, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2005, Pages 219-222

  Yahya, Raafat R ^a   Dirks, Peter ^a   Humphreys, Robin ^a   Rutka, James T ^a   Taylor, Michael ^a   Drake, James M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head injury; Pediatric neurosurgery; Skull base fracture; Television tipover

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; EAR HEMORRHAGE; EAR INJURY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMOTYMPANUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OTORRHEA; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TELEVISION; VEIN OCCLUSION; ACCIDENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACCIDENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; TELEVISION;

EID: 27244453719     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 00223085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/ped.2005.103.3.0219     Document Type: Article

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