Is posttraumatic cerebrospinal fluid fistula a predictor of posttraumatic meningitis? A US Nationwide Inpatient Sample database study

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Sonig, Ashish ^a   Thakur, Jai Deep ^a   iboina, Prashant Chitt ^a   Khan, Imad Saeed ^a   Nanda, Anil ^a  

^a Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid fistula; Head injury; Meningitis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MENINGITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; UNITED STATES;

CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84866551927     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.5.FOCUS1269     Document Type: Article

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