Traumatic brain injury in a rural and an urban Tanzanian hospital - A comparative, retrospective analysis based on computed tomography

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 81, Issue 3-4, 2014, Pages 478-482

  Maier, Daniel ^a   Njoku Jr , Innocent ^b   Schmutzhard, Erich ^a   Dharsee, Jaffer ^c   Doppler, Magdalena ^a   Härtl, Roger ^b   Winkler, Andrea Sylvia ^d  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Aga Khan Hospital   (Tanzania)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Africa; Brain; Computed tomography; Epidemiology; Radiography; Rural population; Tanzania; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AMNESIA; APHASIA; ATAXIA; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIZZINESS; DYSPHAGIA; EMPHYSEMA; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPISTAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; FRACTURE; FRONTAL SINUS; FRONTAL SINUS TRAUMA; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HYGROMA; INCONTINENCE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; NECK PAIN; ORAL BLEEDING; OTORRHEA; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SEIZURE; SHOULDER PAIN; SLEEP DISORDER; SOFT TISSUE; STIFF NECK; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SWELLING; TANZANIA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; URBAN AREA; VIOLENCE; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHILD; EDEMA; INFANT; NEUROIMAGING; NOSE INJURY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

AFRICA; BRAIN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TANZANIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898029956     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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