CT and MR imaging of acute cranial trauma

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Provenzale, James ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Brainstem injury; Carotid cavernous fistula; Computed tomography; Contusion; Deep gray matter injury; Diffuse axonal injury; Dissection; Epidural hematoma; Fracture; Magnetic resonance imaging; Skull; Subdural hematoma; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; AMNESIA; ARTERY DISSECTION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIZZINESS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GRAY MATTER; GRAY MATTER INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LACERATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34147138211     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-007-0587-z     Document Type: Review

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