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Neurology

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 575-576

  Leithner, Christoph ^a   Ploner, Christoph J ^a   Hasper, Dietrich ^a   Storm, Christian ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ELECTRODE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ADULT; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMATOSE PATIENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955458821     PISSN: 00283878     EISSN: 1526632X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0b013e3181ec6819     Document Type: Letter

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