The changing spectrum of coma

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 544-546

  Laureys, Steven ^a,b   Boly, Mélanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN STEM RESPONSE; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS; HUMANS;

EID: 54049112971     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0887     Document Type: Article

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