Vomiting as a reliable sign of concussion

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-25

  Ledic, Darko ^a   Sosa, Ivan ^a   Linic, Ines Strenja ^b   Cvijanovic, Olga ^a   Kovacevic, Miljenko ^a   Desnica, Andrej ^c   Banicek, Ivanka ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^b KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

^c KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

^d Hospital for Medical Rehabilitation Krapinske Toplice   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALANCE IMPAIRMENT; BOXING; CONCUSSION; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIZZINESS; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MOTOR COORDINATION; NAUSEA; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SPORT; SPORT INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOMITING;

BOXING; BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN INJURIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MARTIAL ARTS; VOMITING;

EID: 83155192210     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2011.09.032     Document Type: Article

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