Predictive values of age and the Glasgow Coma Scale in traumatic brain injury patients treated with decompressive craniectomy

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 102, 2008, Pages 109-112

  Potts, Matthew B ^a   Chi, John H ^a,c   Meeker, Michele ^a,b   Holland, Martin C ^a   Hemphill Iii, J Claude ^a,d   Manley, Geoffrey T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BAYVIEW MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Brain injuries; Decompressive craniectomy; Glasgow Coma Scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGING; BRAIN INJURY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66649134206     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-211-85578-2_22     Document Type: Article

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