Computed tomography-estimated specific gravity of noncontused brain areas as a marker of severity in human traumatic brain injury

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1229-1236

  Degos, Vincent ^a   Lescot, Thomas ^a   Zouaoui, Abderrezak ^a   Hermann, Harold ^a   Préteux, Françoise ^b   Coriat, Pierre ^a   Puybasset, Louis ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DES TÉLÉCOMMUNICATIONS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMISPHERE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYDRIASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELATIVE DENSITY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750355964     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000237401.22688.22     Document Type: Article

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