Computed imaging-assisted stereotactic brain biopsy: A risk analysis of 225 consecutive cases

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 640-649

  Sawin, Paul D ^a   Hitchon, Patrick W ^a   Follett, Kenneth A ^a   Torner, James C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain biopsy; Brain neoplasm; Complication; Risk factors; Stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0032101402     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(97)00435-7     Document Type: Article

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