QT prolongation and minor head trauma: A report of two cases

Minerva Pediatrica

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 575-577

  Koturoglu, G ^a   Kurugol, Z ^a   Levent, E ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Child; Head trauma; Long QT syndrome

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEAD INJURY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QT INTERVAL; QT PROLONGATION; SCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846486903     PISSN: 00264946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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