The role of optic nerve ultrasonography in the diagnosis of elevated intracranial pressure

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 251-254

  Girisgin, Abdullah Sadik ^a   Kalkan, Erdal ^a   Kocak, Sedat ^a   Cander, Basar ^a   Gul, Mehmet ^a   Semiz, Mustafa ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; EYELID; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INJURY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; MEDICAL SCHOOL; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; OPTIC NERVE;

EID: 34247213323     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.040931     Document Type: Article

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