Mortality of patients with head injury and extracranial injury treated in trauma centers.

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Published in J Trauma on September 01, 1989

Authors

T A Gennarelli1, H R Champion, W J Sacco, W S Copes, W M Alves

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104.

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