Craniocephalic disproportion with increased intracranial pressure and brain herniation: A new clinical syndrome in anemic patients: Report of two cases

Neurosurgery

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 297-304

  Rengachary, Setti S ^a   Blount, Jeffrey ^d   Heros, Deborah ^c   Bowers, Susan ^b   Truwit, Charles ^a  

^a UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

^b HOUSTON METHODIST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Mt Sinai Hospital ^*  (United States)

^d NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Brain herniation; Raised intracranial pressure; Thalassemia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; CALVARIA; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DETERIORATION; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC, AUTOIMMUNE; ANEMIA, HYPOCHROMIC; CEPHALOMETRY; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENCEPHALOCELE; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOTUMOR CEREBRI; SKULL; SPLENECTOMY; SYNDROME;

EID: 0030930503     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199707000-00054     Document Type: Article

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