The relationship between brain surface elastance and brain re-expansion after evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 570-574

  Fukuhara, Toru ^a   Gotoh, Masaki ^a   Asari, Shoji ^a   Ohmoto, Takashi ^a   Akioka, Tatsuro ^b  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Department of Anesthesiology Mizushima Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain surface elastance; chronic subdural hematoma; ophthalmodynamometer; subdural space

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLIANCE (PHYSICAL); COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHUMAN; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; PRESSURE; RIGIDITY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

EID: 0030174881     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0090-3019(95)00471-8     Document Type: Article

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