The association between skull bone fractures and outcomes in patients with severe traumatic brain injury

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1611-1614

  Tseng, Wei Chun ^a,b   Shih, Hong Mo ^a,b   Su, Yi Chun ^a,b   Chen, Hong Wen ^a,b   Hsiao, Kuang Yu ^a,b   Chen, I Chuan ^a,b  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Mortality; Risk factors; Skull bone fracture; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Subdural hemorrhage; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; EPIDURAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SKULL FRACTURES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84255170159     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31823a8a60     Document Type: Review

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