Clinical analysis of seven patients of crushing head injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1245-1249

  Takeshi, Matsuyama ^a,b   Okuchi, Kazuo ^a   Nishiguchi, Takashi ^a   Seki, Tadahiko ^a   Watanahe, Tomoo ^a   Ito, Shingo ^a   Murao, Yoshinori ^a  

^a NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cranial nerve palsy; Crushing head injury; Static loading

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRUSHING HEAD INJURY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MACHINE; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL FRACTURES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33745236373     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000196932.11384.ac     Document Type: Article

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