Outcome in patients with blunt head trauma and a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3 at presentation: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 683-687

  Chamoun, Roukoz B ^a   Robertson, Claudia S ^a   Gopinath, Shankar P ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blunt head injury; Glasgow Coma Scale; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349912405     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.2.JNS08817     Document Type: Article

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