Decompressive craniectomy in a rat model of 'malignant' cerebral hemispheric stroke: Experimental support for an aggressive therapeutic approach

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 853-859

  Doerfler, Arnd ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Reith, Wolfgang ^a   Staff, Christian ^a   Heiland, Sabine ^a   Schäbitz, Wolf Rüdiger ^a   Von Kummer, Rüdiger ^a   Hacke, Werner ^a   Sartor, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

cerebral infarction; craniectomy; experimental ischemia; malignant middle cerebral artery infarction; rat

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0029837095     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1996.85.5.0853     Document Type: Article

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