An unexpected recovery from permanent vegetative state

Brain Injury

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 101-103

  Sarà, Marco ^a   Sacco, Simona ^a,b   Cipolla, Francesco ^a   Onorati, Paolo ^c,d,e   Scoppetta, Ciriaco ^e   Albertini, Giorgio ^c,d   Carolei, Antonio ^b  

^a Rehabilitation Care Unit   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACLOFEN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN VASOSPASM; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; SLEEP WAKING CYCLE; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TENDON REFLEX;

EID: 34250770513     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699050601151761     Document Type: Article

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