Meta-Analysis of Pre-Clinical Studies of Early Decompression in Acute Spinal Cord Injury: A Battle of Time and Pressure

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Batchelor, Peter E ^a,b   Wills, Taryn E ^a,b   Skeers, Peta ^b   Battistuzzo, Camila R ^b   Macleod, Malcolm R ^c   Howells, David W ^a   Sena, Emily S ^a,c  

^a FLOREY INSTITUTE OF NEUROSCIENCE AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHYLPREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE BRESNAHAN SCALE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; EARLY INTERVENTION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; META ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SPINAL CORD DECOMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ANIMALS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; PUBLICATION BIAS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84882958366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072659     Document Type: Article

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