A 5-year study of the outcome of surgically treated depressed skull fractures

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 196-200

  Al Haddad, Syed A ^a   Kirollos, Ramez ^a  

^a WALTON CENTRE FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depressed skull fractures; Head injury; Neurosurgical infection; Outcome; Post traumatic epilepsy

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN CONTUSION; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; DURA MATER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PEDIATRICS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SKULL FRACTURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEBRIDEMENT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL FRACTURE, DEPRESSED; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036271326     PISSN: 00358843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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