Intractable epilepsy and craniocerebral trauma: Analysis of 163 patients with blunt and penetrating head injuries sustained in war

Injury

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2132-2135

  Kazemi, Hadi ^a,b   Hashemi Fesharaki, Sohrab ^a   Razaghi, Soodeh ^a   Najafi, Masomeh ^a   Kolivand, Peir Hossein ^a   Kovac, Stjepana ^c   Gorji, Ali ^a,d  

^a Shefa Neuroscience Research Center   (Iran)

^b SHAHED UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gunshot injury; Metal fragments; Refractory epilepsy; Seizure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; HEAD INJURY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTRACTABLE EPILEPSY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PORENCEPHALY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SYMPTOM; VETERAN;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; IRAQ WAR, 2003-2011; MALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VETERANS;

EID: 84868211123     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2012.06.007     Document Type: Article

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