Penetrating craniofacial injuries in children with wooden and metal chopsticks

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 138-146

  Park, Se Hyuck ^a   Ki, Hong Cho ^b   Yong, Sam Shin ^b   Se, Hyuck Kim ^b   Young, Hwan Ahn ^b   Kyung, Gi Cho ^b   Soo, Han Yoon ^b  

^a Hallym University   (South Korea)

^b Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Chopstick; Penetrating craniofacial injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

METAL;

APPARATUS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHOPSTICK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EYE MOVEMENT DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAZE; HEAD AND NECK INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE INJURY; PENETRATING CRANIOFACIAL INJURY; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RHINORRHEA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WOOD;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING; FACIAL INJURIES; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; INFANT; KOREA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; METALS; ORBIT; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOOD; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 33646076958     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000091855     Document Type: Review

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