Optimal outcomes for patients with blunt cerebrovascular injury (BCVI): Tailoring treatment to the lesion

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 549-557

  DiCocco, Jennifer M ^a   Fabian, Timothy C ^a   Emmett, Katrina P ^a   Magnotti, Louis J ^a   Zarzaur, Ben L ^a   Bate, Berkeley G ^a   Muhlbauer, Michael S ^a   Khan, Nickalus ^a   Kelly, Jayna M ^a   Williams, James S ^a   Croce, Martin A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CEREBROVASCULAR BLUNT TRAUMA; DISSECTION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR TRAUMA; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953775741     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2010.12.035     Document Type: Article

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