Pathophysiology and treatment of traumatic brain edema

Traumatic brain edema is a secondary phenomenon of traumatic brain injury. It manifests during a time interval by escape of fluid from the vascular compartment to extracellular spaces (vasogenic edema) or due to failure of energy pumps to remove intracellular fluid resulting from hypoxic mitochondri...

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Main Authors: Abhishek Patro, S Mohanty
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2009-06-01
Series:The Indian Journal of Neurotrauma
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Online Access:http://www.ijntonline.com/June09/abstracts/03.PDF