• Neurosurgery · Dec 2005

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    Head injury management algorithm as described in Hippocrates' "peri ton en cephali traumaton".

    • Vassilios G Dimopoulos, Theofilos G Machinis, Kostas N Fountas, and Joe S Robinson.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, The Medical Center of Central Georgia, Mercer University School of Medicine Macon, Georgia, USA.
    • Neurosurgery. 2005 Dec 1; 57 (6): 1303-5; discussion 1303-5.

    AbstractHIPPOCRATIC WORKS LEND themselves still today to the modern physician for further analysis of his approach to the diagnosis and treatment of various pathological conditions. We present an attempt to systematize his methodology regarding the management of head trauma and present it in the format of a modern-era algorithm.

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