Head injury in children

Acta Clinica Croatica

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 539-547

  Mihić, Josip ^a   Rotim, Krešimir ^b   Marcikić, Marcel ^a   Smiljanić, Danko ^a  

^a DR JOSIP BEN EVI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^b SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Child; Craniocerebral trauma; Head injury; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BROKEN BONE FRAGMENT; EMERGENCY CARE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALLING; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LACERATION; MORTALITY; PALLOR; PEDESTRIAN; PEDIATRIC CONTUSION SYNDROME; PENETRATING TRAUMA; SOMNOLENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYMPTOM; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VOMITING;

BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS;

EID: 84865261167     PISSN: 03539466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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