Head injury management algorithm as described in hippocrates' "peri ton en cephali traumaton"

Neurosurgery

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1303-1305

  Dimopoulos, Vassilios G ^a   Machinis, Theofilos C ^a   Fountas, Kostas N ^a,b   Robinson, Joe S ^a  

^a MERCER UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Head injury; Hippocrates; History

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANAMNESIS; BANDAGE; BLINDNESS; CONTUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PALPATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL INJURY; SKULL SURGERY; SKULL SUTURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; WOUND; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

ALGORITHMS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FAMOUS PERSONS; GREECE; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MEDICINE IN ART; NEUROLOGY; REFERENCE BOOKS, MEDICAL;

EID: 29244487549     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000187321.13149.B9     Document Type: Short Survey

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