Time-to-treatment and mortality in patients with acute subdural hematoma

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Rasouli, Mohammad R ^a   Rahimi Movaghar, Vafa ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LETTER; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; MALE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 84875131543     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318289f0c9     Document Type: Letter

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