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Severe traumatic brain injury in children – are the results improving?

Jürg Pfenninger, Alessandro Santi

Swiss Medical Weekly · 2002 · 59 citations · 17 references

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Abstract

Despite changing management policies, results were comparable with those of our former series. This fact underlines the importance of primary injury and the secondary role of intensive care management on final outcome.

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