Rapid progression of traumatic bifrontal contusions to transtentorial herniation: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Rehman, Tausif ^a   Ali, Rushna ^b   Tawil, Isaac ^a   Yonas, Howard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE COURSE; FALLING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TEMPORAL LOBE; THALAMUS; TRANSTENTORIAL HERNIATION; TRAUMATIC BIFRONTAL CONTUSION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84255201857     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: 17571626     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-1-203     Document Type: Article

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