Computed tomographic brain density measurement as a predictor of elevated intracranial pressure in blunt head trauma

American Surgeon

Volumn 73, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1023-1026

  Inaba, Kenji ^a   Teixeira, Pedro G R ^a   David, Jean Stephane ^b   Brown, Carlos ^a   Salim, Ali ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a   Browder, Timothy ^a   Dubose, Joseph ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN DENSITY MEASUREMENT; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MALE; PARAMETERS OF MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; BRAIN; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38449105941     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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