The relationship between Glasgow coma/outcome scores and abnormal CT scan findings in chronic subdural hematoma

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 152-157

  Amirjamshidi, Abbass ^a   Eftekhar, Behzad ^a   Abouzari, Mehdi ^b   Rashidi, Armin ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

CSDH; CT scan; GCS; GOS; Logistic regression

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIVARIATE ANALYSIS; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CHILD; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREPHINING;

EID: 33846120538     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2006.07.007     Document Type: Article

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