Treatment for blunt cerebrovascular injuries: Equivalence of anticoagulation and antiplatelet agents

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 685-690

  Cothren, C Clay ^a   Biffl, Walter L ^a   Moore, Ernest E ^a   Kashuk, Jeffry L ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LIVER HEMATOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SIDE EFFECT; STENT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBELASTOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650809006     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.111     Document Type: Article

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