Factors of morbidity in hemispherectomies: Surgical technique x pathology

Brain and Development

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 215-222

  De Almeida, Antonio Nogueira ^a,b   Marino Jr , Raul ^a   Marie, Suely Kazuo ^a   Aguiar, Paulo Henrique ^a   Teixeira, Manoel Jacobsen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Inst Neurologico de São Paulo   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epilepsia; Functional hemispherectomy; Hemidecortication; Hemispherectomy; Hemispherotomy; Morbidity; Neurosurgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEMISPHERECTOMY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MENINGOENCEPHALITIS; MORBIDITY; OPERATION DURATION; RASMUSSEN SYNDROME; SEIZURE; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME;

EID: 33644915589     PISSN: 03877604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.braindev.2005.08.005     Document Type: Article

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