Neurologic outcome of minimal head injury patients managed with or without a routine repeat head computed tomography

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 273-278

  Nayak, Natasha V ^a   Medina, Benjamin ^a   Patel, Kalpit ^a   Homnick, Adena T ^a   Mohr, Alicia M ^a   Livingston, David H ^a   Prestigiacomo, Charles J ^b   Sifri, Ziad C ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b New Jersey Medical School   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracranial bleed; Minimal head injury; Neurologic deterioration; Repeat head computed tomography; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTUSION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL HEAD INJURY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPEAT HEAD COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADULT; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881368905     PISSN: 21630755     EISSN: 21630763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182905eb4     Document Type: Article

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