Title: Complications of nervous system trauma /
Authors: Thompson, Richard A.,; Green, John R.
Date: 1979
Publisher: Raven Press,
Physical description: xii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Incidence of craniocerebral trauma in the United States in 1976 with trend from 1970-75 -- Pathophysiology of concussion: a review -- Pathology of traumatic brain injuries -- Physiological monitoring of the head injury patient -- CT diagnosis of the isodene subdural hematoma -- Neurootologic aspects of head injury -- Predictors of recovery in evaluation of patients in coma -- Posttraumatic epilepsy -- Role of psychological follow-up in nervous system trauma -- Advances in the determinatin of cerebral death -- Acute microvascular responses to spinal cord injury -- Microvascular regeneration following spinal cord injury: the growth sequence and permeability properties of new vessels -- Computed tomography of spinal fractures -- Spinal cord injury -- associated general trauma and medical complications -- Medical management of pulmonary complications of spinal cord injury -- Advances and diagnosis and treatment of root and peripheral nerve injury -- Cervical spondylotic radiculopathy.
Notes: Tables.
Subject headings (LCSH): Brain--Wounds and injuries.; Nervous system--Wounds and injuries.; Spinal cord--Wounds and injuries.; Traumatism.