Trauma infant neurologic score predicts the outcome of traumatic brain injury in infants

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 259-266

  Yi, Wei ^a   Liu, Renzhong ^a   Chen, Jian ^b   Tao, Shengzhong ^c   Humphrey, Okechi ^a   Bergenheim, A Tommy ^d  

^a RENMIN HOSPITAL OF WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Children's Coma Score; Glasgow Outcome Score; Trauma Infant Neurologic Score; Traumatic brain injury, infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMA; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISABILITY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; IRRITABILITY; LACERATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLOR; PARESIS; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCALP; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMA INFANT NEUROLOGIC SCORE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOMITING;

EID: 78650041972     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321800     Document Type: Article

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