Chronic epidural and epicranial post-traumatic pneumocephalus: Unusual complication of skull base fracture;Pneumatocele extra-durale et epicranienne chronique post-traumatique: Une rare complication d'une fracture de la base du crane

Neurochirurgie

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 145-149

  Sadeghi Hariri, B ^b   Kampouridis, S ^b   Roman, A ^a   Poncelet, Ph ^b   Dolhen, P ^a   Depaepe, E ^a   Ectors, P ^b  

^a SAINT PIERRE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chronic epidural pneumocephalus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SKULL BASE FRACTURE; CRANIOTOMY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEARING LOSS; INJURY; OCCIPITAL BONE; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRANIOTOMY; FACIAL PARALYSIS; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; OCCIPITAL BONE; PNEUMOCEPHALUS; SKULL BASE; SKULL FRACTURES;

EID: 0032785390     PISSN: 00283770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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