Hemicraniectomy after massive hemispheric cerebral infarction: Are we ready for a prospective randomised controlled trial?

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 179-180

  Cockroft, K M ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CRANIECTOMY; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION;

BRAIN; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0842265949     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp.2003.028407     Document Type: Editorial

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