Acute epidural hematoma developing during twist-drill craniostomy: A complication of percutaneous subdural tapping for the treatment of chronic subdural hematoma

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 601-604

  Yoshino, Yoshikazu ^a   Aoki, Nobuhiko ^b   Oikawa, Akihiro ^b   Ohno, Kikuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Health and Medical Treatment Corporation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute epidural hematoma; Chronic subdural hematoma; Percutaneous subdural tapping; Twist drill craniostomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RISK FACTOR; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0034209961     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0090-3019(00)00240-8     Document Type: Article

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