Mild traumatic brain injury defined by Glasgow Coma Scale: Is it really mild?

Brain Injury

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 11-16

  Joseph, Bellal ^a   Pandit, Viraj ^a   Aziz, Hassan ^a   Kulvatunyou, Narong ^a   Zangbar, Bardiya ^a   Green, Donald J ^a   Haider, Ansab ^a   Tang, Andrew ^a   O'Keeffe, Terence ^a   Gries, Lynn ^a   Friese, Randall S ^a   Rhee, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Glasgow Coma Scale; Mild brain injury; Outcome trauma; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL FRACTURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; THROMBOCYTE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; INJURY SCALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84917708875     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2014.945959     Document Type: Article

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