Pediatric crushing head injury: Biomechanics and clinical features of an uncommon type of craniocerebral trauma

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2033-2040

  López Guerrero, Antonio López ^a   Martínez Lage, Juan F ^a   González Tortosa, José ^a   Almagro, María José ^a   García Martínez, Silvia ^a   Reyes, Susana B ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Accidental trauma; Children; Crush head injury . Head injury; Diffuse axonal injury; Pediatric trauma; Skull base fracture; Skull fracture

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE INJURY; ACCIDENTAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; EAR INJURY; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; OCULOMOTOR NERVE INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; THROAT DISEASE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, HOME; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; AUTOMOBILES; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID OTORRHEA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIFFUSE AXONAL INJURY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871234087     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: 14330350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-012-1864-z     Document Type: Article

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