Benign anterior temporal epidural hematoma: Indolent lesion with a characteristic CT imaging appearance after blunt head trauma

Radiology

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 212-218

  Gean, Alisa D ^a,c   Fischbein, Nancy J ^b   Purcell, Derk D ^a   Aiken, Ashley H ^a,c   Manley, Geoffrey T ^a,c   Stiver, Shirley I ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE CRANIAL FOSSA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77957327260     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10092075     Document Type: Article

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