Mild traumatic brain injury

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 129-137

  Bruns Jr , John J ^a   Jagoda, Andy S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain specific biomarkers; Computed tomography; Mild brain injury; Postconcussive symptoms; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; PROTEIN S100B;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTCONCUSSION SYNDROME; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNITED STATES; BLOOD; BRAIN INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; POST-CONCUSSION SYNDROME; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 66849118877     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 19317581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/msj.20101     Document Type: Article

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