Delayed neurological deterioration after mild head injury: Cause, temporal course, and outcomes

Neurosurgery

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 753-760

  Choudhry, Osamah J ^a   Prestigiacomo, Charles J ^a,b   Gala, Nihar ^a   Slasky, Shira ^b   Sifri, Ziad C ^b  

^a RWJ Barnabas Health   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute neurologic deterioration; Delayed neurologic deterioration; Elderly; GOS; Mild head injury; Mild traumatic brain injury; Talk and deteriorate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886591309     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0000000000000105     Document Type: Article

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