Value of repeat cranial computed tomography in pediatric patients sustaining moderate to severe traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1293-1297

  Da Silva, Paulo Sérgio Lucas ^a,b   Reis, Maria Eunice ^a   Aguiar, V̂nia Euzébio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DO SERVIDOR PÚBLICO ESTADUAL DE SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Children; CT scan; Glasgow Coma Scale; Pediatric intensive care unit; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DETERIORATION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; FEMALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MORTALITY; RADIOGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650607668     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318156866c     Document Type: Article

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