What to call spinal cord damage not due to trauma? Implications for literature searching

Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 89-95

  New, Peter W ^a,b   Delafosse, Veronica ^a  

^a CAULFIELD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Information storage and retrieval; Spinal cord diseases; Spinal cord injury; Systematized nomenclature of medicine; Terminology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMTREE THESAURUS; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MESH HEADING; NOMENCLATURE; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

AUSTRIA; DATABASES, BIBLIOGRAPHIC; HUMANS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84858995003     PISSN: 10790268     EISSN: 20457723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2045772311Y.0000000053     Document Type: Article

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