Acute metabolic brain changes following traumatic brain injury and their relevance to clinical severity and outcome

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 501-507

  Marino, Silvia ^a   Zei, Ettore ^a   Battaglini, Marco ^a   Vittori, Cesare ^a   Buscalferri, Antonella ^a   Bramanti, Placido ^b   Federico, Antonio ^a   De Stefano, Nicola ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ACETYLCHOLINE BRAIN LEVEL; ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC BALANCE; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TIME PERCEPTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247218051     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2006.099796     Document Type: Article

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