Brain in a box

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 26, 2012, Pages 2539-2541

  Ropper, Allan H ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MORTALITY; MYDRIASIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTH AMERICA; STUPOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871683040     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1212289     Document Type: Editorial

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