Administration of vitamin C and vitamin E in severe head injury: A randomized double-blind controlled trial

Clinical Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue , 2011, Pages 133-137

  Razmkon, Ali ^a   Sadidi, Ahmad ^a   Sherafat Kazemzadeh, Ehsan ^a   Mehrafshan, Ali ^a   Jamali, Mohammad ^a   Malekpour, Babak ^a   Saghafinia, Masoud ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; PLACEBO; ANTIOXIDANT;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; PERILESIONAL EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DOSE RESPONSE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASCORBIC ACID; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITAMIN E; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155179786     PISSN: 00694827     EISSN: 0148396X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182279a8f     Document Type: Conference Paper

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