Epidemiology of traumatic head injury in children and adolescents in a major trauma center in Saudi Arabia: Implications for injury prevention

Annals of Saudi Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 52-56

  Alhabdan, Sultan ^a   Zamakhshary, Mohammed ^a   Alnaimi, Manal ^b   Mandora, Hala ^b   Alhamdan, Manal ^c   Al Bedah, Khalid ^c   Al Enazi, Salem ^c   Al Habib, Amro ^d  

^a KING SAUD BIN ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Departments of Surgery King Abdulaziz Medical City   (Saudi Arabia)

^c King Abdullah International Medical Center   (Saudi Arabia)

^d KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FALLING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PEDESTRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84873914310     PISSN: 02564947     EISSN: 09754466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5144/0256-4947.2013.52     Document Type: Article

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