Severe brain damage by current flow after electrical burn injury

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 917-922

  Scholz, Till ^a   Rippmann, Volker ^a   Wojtecki, Lars ^b   Perbix, Walter ^a   Rothschild, Markus A ^c   Spilker, Gerald ^a  

^a KLINIKEN DER STADT KÖLN GGMBH   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BABINSKI REFLEX; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN DAMAGE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC BURN; ELECTRIC INJURY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; ELECTRIC INJURIES; FATAL OUTCOME; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750804381     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.BCR.0000245646.80680.26     Document Type: Article

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