Predicting intracranial lesions by antiplatelet agents in subjects with mild head injury

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1275-1279

  Fabbri, Andrea ^a   Servadei, Franco ^b   Marchesini, Giulio ^c   Stein, Sherman C ^d   Vandelli, Alberto ^a  

^a MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; INDOBUFEN; TICLOPIDINE;

AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; AMNESIA; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG USE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EUROPE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MILD HEAD INJURY; NEUROTOXICITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649580573     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2009.197467     Document Type: Article

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