Traumatic brain injury in Greece: Report of a countrywide registry

Brain Injury

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 871-876

  Katsaragakis, Stylianos ^a   Drimousis, Panagiotis G ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Stefanatou, Maria ^a   Larentzakis, Antreas ^a   Theodoraki, Maria E ^b   Stergiopoulos, Spyros ^a   Theodorou, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Trauma; Trauma registry; Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE REGISTRY; FALLING; FEMALE; GREECE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; LETHALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 77952267931     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699051003789237     Document Type: Article

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