Delayed bilateral craniectomy for treatment of traumatic brain swelling in children: Case report and review of the literature

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 249-253

  Reithmeier, Thomas ^a   Speder, Bernhard ^a   Pakos, Paul ^a   Brinker, Gerret ^a   Löhr, Mario ^a   Klug, Norfrid ^a   Ernestus, Ralf Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Craniectomy; Head injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DEATH; DYSGRAPHIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; JAW OPENING REFLEX; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VEIN OCCLUSION;

BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; REVIEW LITERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 14944374532     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-004-1044-x     Document Type: Article

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