Cranial nerve injury after minor head trauma: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 547-555

  Coello, Alejandro Fernández ^a   Canals, Andreu Gabarrós ^a   Gonzalez, Juan Martino ^b   Martín, Juan José Acebes ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cranial nerve; Head injury; Minor head trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ACCESSORY NERVE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COCHLEAR NERVE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCULOMOTOR NERVE; OLFACTORY NERVE; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; TROCHLEAR NERVE; VAGUS NERVE; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE; VISUAL ACUITY; AGED; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIAL NERVE; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; CRANIAL NERVE INJURIES; CRANIAL NERVES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77956925742     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.6.JNS091620     Document Type: Article

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