Mechanism-based MRI classification of traumatic brainstem injury and its relationship to outcome

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 128-135

  Mannion, Richard J ^a   Cross, Justin ^a   Bradley, Peter ^a   Coles, Jonathan P ^a   Chatfield, Doris ^a   Carpenter, Adrian ^a   Pickard, John D ^a   Menon, David K ^a   Hutchinson, Peter J ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Injury; MRI; Outcome; Traumatic

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISABILITY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FAMILY COUNSELING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PROGNOSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; CEREBELLUM; DURA MATER; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846820587     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2006.0127     Document Type: Article

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