Factors predicting early deterioration in mild brain trauma: A prospective study

Brain Injury

Volumn 27, Issue 13-14, 2013, Pages 1666-1670

  Seddighi, Amir Saied ^a   Motiei Langroudi, Rouzbeh ^a   Sadeghian, Homa ^b   Moudi, Mohsen ^c   Zali, Alireza ^a   Asheghi, Ebrahim ^a   Alereza Amiri, Reza ^a   Seddighi, Afsoun ^a,d  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Shefa Neuroscience Research Center   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d QAZVIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Computed tomography; Deterioration; Mild; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDURAL HAEMORRHAGE.; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUBGALEAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84888879370     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2013.830333     Document Type: Article

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