Head trauma due to earthquake October 2005 - Experience of 300 cases at the combined military hospital rawalpindi

Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 22-26

  Bhatti, Sabir Hussain ^a,b   Ahmed, Ishfaq ^a   Qureshi, Nazeer Ahmed ^a   Akram, Maqsood ^a   Khan, Junaid ^a  

^a Peshawar Cantonment   (Pakistan)

^b NONE   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Burr hole; Craniotomy; Earthquake; Evacuation; Glasgow outcome scale; Head injury; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE STUDY; CHILD; COMPOUND FRACTURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARTHQUAKE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINOR SURGERY; MORTALITY; PAKISTAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REOPERATION; SEX RATIO; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATURAL DISASTERS; PAKISTAN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 41049091039     PISSN: 1022386X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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