Liver cirrhosis and traumatic brain injury: A fatal combination based on national trauma databank analysis

American Surgeon

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 311-314

  Lustenberger, Thomas ^a   Talving, Peep ^a   Lam, Lydia ^a   Inaba, Kenji ^a   Branco, Bernardino Castelo ^a   Plurad, David ^a   Demetriades, Demetrios ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VENTILATOR;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79952411047     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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