Talk and die revisited: Bifrontal contusions and late deterioration

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1588-1592

  Peterson, Eric Cecala ^a   Chesnut, Randall M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bifrontal Contusions; Late Deterioration; Traumatic Brain Injury

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ANOSMIA; ARTICLE; BIFRONTAL CONTUSION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DETERIORATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEMORY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINE OSMOLALITY;

BRAIN INJURIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPEECH DISORDERS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84255170195     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31822b791d     Document Type: Article

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