Supplementary tests for confirmation of brain death

Journal of Zhejiang University: Science B

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 921-922

  Cheng, Wei Lung ^a   Lin, Kao Chang ^a  

^a CHI MEI MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN DEATH; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; COMA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT LATENCY EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

BRAIN DEATH; HUMANS;

EID: 55949115637     PISSN: 16731581     EISSN: 18621783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1631/jzus.B0870001     Document Type: Editorial

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