Unexpected recovery of function after severe traumatic brain injury: The limits of early neuroimaging-based outcome prediction

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 364-375

  Edlow, Brian L ^a   Giacino, Joseph T ^a,b   Hirschberg, Ronald E ^a,b   Gerrard, Jason ^a   Wu, Ona ^a   Hochberg, Leigh R ^a,c,d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^c Brown University   (United States)

^d PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Apparent diffusion coefficient; Coma; Diffusion tensor imaging; Diffusion weighted imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Traumatic axonal injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AMANTADINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEMOGLOBIN; METHYLPHENIDATE;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; BREATHING DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CHEST TUBE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DISABILITY RATING SCALE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; GASTROTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SELF CARE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TACHYCARDIA; TIC; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COMA; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84890548960     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: 15560961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12028-013-9870-x     Document Type: Article

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