Elevated Selectin Levels in Multiple Trauma Patients with Severe Head Injury
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[Outcome of severe head injury with and without multiple trauma].
The authors compared the clinical outcome in cases of isolated, severe, blunt head injury (IHI) and those involving multiple trauma that included head injury (HMI). There were 204 patients in the IHI group (mean age, 38.5 years) and 192 in the HMI group (mean age, 35.3 years). The overall mortality rate was 53.9% following IHI and 50.0% following HMI. The incidence of shock was significa...
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عنوان ژورنال: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine
سال: 1997
ISSN: 1049-023X,1945-1938
DOI: 10.1017/s1049023x00047154