Historical study of coma: Looking back through medical and neurological texts

Brain

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 877-889

  Koehler, Peter J ^a   Wijdicks, Eelco F M ^b  

^a Zuyderland Medical Centre   (Netherlands)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Coma; History of medicine; History of neurology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BREATHING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETICULAR FORMATION; SOMNOLENCE; STUPOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; COMA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; NEUROLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 39749179034     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm332     Document Type: Article

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