Head trauma

Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 527-556

  Gean, Alisa D ^a   Fischbein, Nancy J ^b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemorrhage; Scalp; Skull; Traumatic brain injury; Vascular

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALSE ANEURYSM; FLUID ATTENUATED INBERSION RECOVERY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAPARENCHYMAL HEMATOMA; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SCALP TRAUMA; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SKULL INJURY; SKULL RADIOGRAPHY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBCORTICAL GRAY MATTER INJURY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC AXONAL INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958177205     PISSN: 10525149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nic.2010.08.001     Document Type: Review

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