Skull base and maxillofacial fractures: Two centre study with correlation of clinical findings with a comprehensive craniofacial classification system

Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 305-311

  Bächli, Heidi ^a   Leiggener, Christoph ^a,e   Gawelin, Petter ^b   Audigé, Laurent ^c   Enblad, Per ^b   Zeilhofer, Hans Florian ^a,e   Hirsch, Jan ^b   Buitrago Téllez, Carlos ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c AO FOUNDATION   (Switzerland)

^d Institute of Radiology   (Switzerland)

^e Hightech Research Centre for Cranio Maxillofacial Surgery   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

cranio maxillofacial injury severity score (CMF ISS); periorbital haematoma; pneumencephalus; rhinorrhoea; skull base fractures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONSENSUS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURY; NEUROIMAGING; PERIORBITAL EDEMA; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; RHINORRHEA; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL BASE; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; MIDDLE AGED; ORBITAL DISEASES; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049147703     PISSN: 10105182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2009.01.008     Document Type: Article

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