Postoperative brainstem high intensity is correlated with poor outcomes for patients with spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1323-1328

  Yanaka, Kiyoyuki ^a,b   Meguro, Kotoo ^a   Fujita, Keishi ^a   Narushima, Kiyoshi ^a   Nose, Tadao ^b  

^a Tsukuba Medical Center   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem; Cerebellar hemorrhage; Magnetic resonance imaging; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032785895     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199912000-00010     Document Type: Article

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