General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 310-314 , May 2010

Predictors of carbon monoxide poisoning-induced delayed neuropsychological sequelae

  • Hsiao-Lun Ku, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Kai-Chun Yang, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Yuanshan Veterans Hospital, Yilan 264, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ying-Chiao Lee, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Ming-Been Lee, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Health, Taiwan Suicide Prevention Center, Executive Yuan 100, Taiwan
    • Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University and Hospital, Taipei 100, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yuan-Hwa Chou, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital and National Yang Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
    • Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 2871 1290; fax: +886 2 2876 8403.

Received 15 August 2009 ,Accepted 13 November 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2009.11.005

General Hospital Psychiatry
Volume 32, Issue 3 , Pages 310-314 , May 2010

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