Patients on Anticoagulants after a Head Trauma : Is a Negative Initial CT Scan Enough? Report of a Case of Delayed Subdural Haematoma and Review of the Literature

Mild traumatic brain injury is common in elderly patients, many of whom are on anticoagulant. The common practice is to discharge these patients from the emergency room if the computed tomography (CT) of the brain is normal. However, a very small proportion of these patients may develop a life threa...

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Autores principales: Hadjigeorgiou, Georgios F., Anagnostopoulos, Christos, Chamilos, Christos, Petsanas, Adamantios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Neurosurgical Society 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24570820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2014.55.1.51

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3928351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24570820
http://dx.doi.org/10.3340/jkns.2014.55.1.51

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