One-year outcome after decompressive surgery for massive nondominant hemispheric infarction

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1168-1176

  Carter, Bob S ^a   Ogilvy, Christopher S ^a   Candia, Guillermo J ^b   Rosas, H Diana ^a   Buonanno, Ferdinando ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ST ELIZABETH'S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; Embolus; Hemicraniectomy; Intracranial hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBELLUM TENTORIUM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL DISABILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN EDEMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030951321     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199706000-00010     Document Type: Article

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