Imaging for the Diagnosis and Management of Traumatic Brain Injury

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 39-53

  Kim, Jane J ^a   Gean, Alisa D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

contusion; epidural; hemorrhage; subdural; TBI; traumatic shear injury

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; DEOXYHEMOGLOBIN; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERVENTILATION; HYPOTENSION; HYPOXEMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SEDATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79955570675     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-010-0003-3     Document Type: Article

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