Neurological and functional recovery in multiple injured patients with Paraplegia: Outcome after 1 year

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1078-1085

  Putz, Cornelia ^a,b   Schuld, Christian ^a   Akbar, Michael ^a   Grieser, Thomas ^b   Wiedenhöfer, Bernd ^a   Fürstenberg, Carl Hans ^a   Gerner, Hans Jürgen ^a   Rupp, Rüdiger ^a  

^a Spinal Cord Injury Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ASIA; Multiple trauma; Neurological recovery; Paraplegia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE INJURY; THORAX INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; PARAPLEGIA; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955756497     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181e73fa0     Document Type: Article

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