Essay: The future of traumatic brain injury

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 190-193

  Ghajar, Jamshid ^a,b  

^a Brain Trauma Foundation   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HELMET; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RECURRENCE RISK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; CLASSIFICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; RESEARCH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66849101651     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20095     Document Type: Article

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