Immediate surgery reduces mortality in deeply comatose patients with spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 295-300

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

^a Tsukuba Medical   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Coma; Hemorrhage; Stroke; Surgicaltreatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMA; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PROGNOSIS; RATING SCALE; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STROKE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0033947871     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.40.295     Document Type: Article

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