Emergency decompressive craniectomy for traumatic malignant intracranial hypertension

Neurosurgery Quarterly

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 171-181

  Bose, Bikash ^a  

^a FACS   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; Head injury; Increased intracranial pressure

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; FUROSEMIDE; MANNITOL; PENTOBARBITAL;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036100589     PISSN: 10506438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00013414-200206000-00009     Document Type: Article

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