Traumatic subdural effusions in children following minor head injury

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1391-1396

  Kumar, Raj ^a   Singhal, Namit ^a   Mahapatra, A K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Children; External hydrocephalus; Minor head injury; Subdural effusion; Subdural hygroma; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE DILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT DURATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEIZURES; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL SPACE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56349158633     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0645-1     Document Type: Article

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