A meta-analysis to determine the effect of preinjury antiplatelet agents on mortality in patients with blunt head trauma

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 12-18

  Batchelor, John Stephen ^a   Grayson, Alan ^a  

^a MANCHESTER ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antiplatelet agents; Head injury

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLISHING; REFERENCE DATABASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTE TRANSFUSION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; BLOOD COAGULATION DISORDERS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HEAD INJURIES, CLOSED; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; TICLOPIDINE;

EID: 84872722159     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2012.705361     Document Type: Article

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