Recovery process of immediate prolonged posttraumatic coma following severe head injury without mass lesions

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 614-619

  Wada, Tsukasa ^a   Kuroda, Kiyoshi ^a   Yoshida, Yuki ^a   Ogawa, Akira ^a   Endo, Shigeatsu ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffuse axonal injury; Magnetic resonance imaging; Posttraumatic coma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMA, POST-HEAD INJURY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 29544434635     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.45.614     Document Type: Article

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