Emergency cranial computed tomography in the management of acute febrile encephalopathy in children.
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Emergency cranial computed tomography in the management of acute febrile encephalopathy in children.
OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the influence of emergency cranial computed tomography on the management of acute febrile encephalopathy in children. METHODS A retrospective study in children with acute febrile encephalopathy who underwent emergency cranial computed tomography within 12 hours of admission to the paediatric intensive care unit. All scans were evaluated by two independent radiologists....
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عنوان ژورنال: Emergency Medicine Journal
سال: 1999
ISSN: 1472-0205,1472-0213
DOI: 10.1136/emj.16.6.403