Intraorbital encephalocele: An important complication of orbital roof fractures in pediatric patients

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 240-245

  Cayli, Suleyman R ^a,b   Kocak, Ayhan ^a   Alkan, Alpay ^a   Kutlu, Ramazan ^a   Tekiner, Ayhan ^a   Ates, Ozkan ^a   Sahinbeyoglu, Baran ^a  

^a INONU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b PK 230 ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral contusion; Childhood; Encephalocele; Head injury; Magnetic resonance imaging; Orbital roof fracture

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN CYST; BRAIN INJURY; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKULL SURGERY; SUBARACHNOID SPACE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; ORBITAL DISEASES; ORBITAL FRACTURES; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141649477     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000072868     Document Type: Review

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