Early diagnosis of diffuse brain damage resulting from a blunt head injury

Legal Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-108

  Ogata, Mamoru ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diffuse brain damage; Diffuse traumatic axonal injury; Diffuse vascular injury; Head injury; Ischemic brain damage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN DAMAGE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GLIA CELL; HEAD INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

AUTOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES;

EID: 33847008970     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.11.013     Document Type: Article

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