Clinical review: Prognostic value of magnetic resonance imaging in acute brain injury and coma

Critical Care

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Weiss, Nicolas ^a   Galanaud, Damien ^a   Carpentier, Alexandre ^a   Naccache, Lionel ^a   Puybasset, Louis ^a  

^a PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CREATININE; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ANISOTROPY; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HYPOXIA; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN NECROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETICULAR FORMATION; STROKE;

BRAIN INJURIES; COMA; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-ISCHEMIA, BRAIN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETICULAR FORMATION; STROKE;

EID: 44449174223     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc6107     Document Type: Review

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