Neuroimaging of traumatic brain injury

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 145-162

  Le, Tuong H ^a   Gean, Alisa D ^a  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain herniation; Cerebral edema; Diffuse axonal injury; Epidural hematoma; Intracerebral hematoma; Intraventricular hemorrhage; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Subdural hematoma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PSEUDOTUMOR; CAROTID CAVERNOUS FISTULA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MENINGEAL CYST; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ARACHNOID CYST; BRAIN INJURY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; HOSPITALIZATION; HYDROCEPHALUS; METHODOLOGY; SUBDURAL EFFUSION;

ARACHNOID CYSTS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURIES; CAROTID-CAVERNOUS SINUS FISTULA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBROVASCULAR TRAUMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66849089410     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20102     Document Type: Review

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