The place of decompressive surgery in the treatment of uncontrollable post-traumatic intracranial hypertension in children

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 270-275

  Hieu, Phong Dam ^a   Sizun, Jacques ^a   Person, Hervé ^a   Besson, Gérard ^a  

^a CHU MORVAN   (France)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Child; Decompressive craniectomy; Intracranial hypertension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD;

BRAIN CONCUSSION; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030001009     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00261809     Document Type: Article

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