Severe head injury in early infancy: Analysis of causes and possible predictive factors for outcome

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 873-880

  Marton, Elisabetta ^a   Mazzucco, Marina ^a   Nascimben, Ennio ^b   Martinuzzi, Andrea ^c   Longatti, Pierluigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b CA FONCELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Childhood trauma; Functional outcome; Paediatric coma scales; Paediatric head injury; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOME ACCIDENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447099378     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-007-0314-9     Document Type: Article

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