Intracerebral cytokines in traumatic brain injury: Clinical and radiological correlates

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 599-601

  Sharma, Deepak ^a   Vavilala, Monica S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

brain injury; brain oxygen; cytokines; inflammation; trauma

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12P70; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 8; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

APOPTOSIS; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; EDITORIAL; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MICRODIALYSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPERFUSION INJURY; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 79952224636     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31820a5148     Document Type: Editorial

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