The value of scheduled repeat cranial computed tomography after mild head injury: Single-center series and meta-analysis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-63

  Almenawer, Saleh A ^a   Bogza, Iulia ^a   Yarascavitch, Blake ^a   Sne, Niv ^a   Farrokhyar, Forough ^a   Murty, Naresh ^a   Reddy, Kesava ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Follow up CT; Intracranial hemorrhage; Meta analysis; Mild head injury; Repeat computed tomography

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; CASE MANAGEMENT; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 84871989459     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318276f899     Document Type: Article

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