These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: [Elderly patients with traumatic intracerebral hematoma who talk and deteriorate].
    Author: Sibata S, Mori K.
    Journal: No Shinkei Geka; 1989 Feb; 17(2):177-80. PubMed ID: 2733811.
    Abstract:
    Two closed head injury patients who talked before their conditions deteriorated to a Glasgow coma scale score of 8 or less were identified. A 68-year-old man died with delayed traumatic intracerebral hematoma and a 63-year-old man was left vegetative with intracerebral hematoma after surgical decompression. Intracerebral hematomas in the elderly are significantly more common in the "talk and deteriorate" group, and rapid diagnosis by repeated CT scan and decompression are the most important factor in salvaging these patients.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]