A prospective evaluation of the value of repeat cranial computed tomography in patients with minimal head injury and an intracranial bleed

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 862-867

  Sifri, Ziad C ^a,b   Homnick, Adena T ^a   Vaynman, Artem ^a   Lavery, Robert ^a   Liao, Wesley ^a   Mohr, Alicia ^a   Hauser, Carl J ^a   Manniker, Allen ^a   Livingston, David ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b M 229 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial computed axial tomography; Intracranial bleed; Neurologic status; Neurosurgical intervention; Traumatic Brain Injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DETERIORATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL HEAD INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33749994949     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ta.0000224225.54982.90     Document Type: Article

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