Management of War-Related Ballistic Craniocerebral Injuries in a French Role 3 Hospital During the Afghan Campaign

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 102, Issue , 2017, Pages 6-12

  Dagain, Arnaud ^a,b   Aoun, Olivier ^c   Bordes, Julien ^a   Roqueplo, Cédric ^c   Joubert, Christophe ^a   Esnault, Pierre ^a   Sellier, Aurore ^a   Delmas, Jean Marc ^d   Desse, Nicolas ^a   Fouet, Mathilde ^d   Pernot, Philippe ^b,d   Dulou, Renaud ^b,d  

^a Sainte Anne's Military Hospital   (France)

^b Visceral Surgery Unit   (France)

^c The 5th Armed Forces Medical Center   (France)

^d PERCY MILITARY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Afghanistan; Ballistic craniocerebral injuries; Damage control; War injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FRANCE; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFGHAN CAMPAIGN 2001-; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; FRANCE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILITARY MEDICINE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85016258163     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2017.02.097     Document Type: Article

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