Cerebral Salt-Wasting Syndrome Caused by Minor Head Injury
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Cerebral Salt-Wasting Syndrome Caused by Minor Head Injury
A 34-year-old woman was admitted to hospital after sustaining a head injury in a motor vehicle accident (day 1). No signs of neurological deficit, skull fracture, brain contusion, or intracranial bleeding were evident. She was discharged without symptoms on day 4. However, headache and nausea worsened on day 8, at which time serum sodium level was noted to be 121 mEq/L. Treatment with sodium ch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Emergency Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2090-648X,2090-6498
DOI: 10.1155/2017/8692017