Minor head injury in warfarinized patients: Indicators of risk for intracranial hemorrhage

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 906-909

  Claudia, Casula ^a   Claudia, Ranalli ^a   Agostino, Ognibene ^b,c   Simone, Magazzini ^a   Stefano, Grifoni ^a  

^a Universitaria Careggi ^*  (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliero   (Italy)

^c Laboratorio Generale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Head injury; INR; Intracranial hemorrhage; Warfarin

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD TESTIS BARRIER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DRUG INTOXICATION; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SKULL FRACTURE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WARFARIN;

EID: 79954529533     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182031ab7     Document Type: Article

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