Clivus fractures: Clinical presentations and courses

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 194-198

  Menkü, Ahmet ^a   Koç, R Kemal ^a   Tucer, Bülent ^a   Durak, A Candan ^a   Akdemir, Hidayet ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Classification; Clivus fracture; Computed tomography; Cranial nerve injury; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLIVUS; CLIVUS FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FACIAL NERVE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FALLING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL IRRADIATION; TEMPORAL BONE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3142738753     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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