Surgical management of posterior fossa mass lesions

Neurosurgery

Volumn 58, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2006, Pages

  Bullock, M Ross ^a   Chesnut, Randall ^b   Ghajar, Jamshid ^c,i   Gordon, David ^d   Hartl, Roger ^c   Newell, David W ^e   Servadei, Franco ^f   Walters, Beverly C ^g   Wilberger, Jack ^h  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f BUFALINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

ⁱ Brain Trauma Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Coma; Computed tomographic parameters; Contusion; Head injury; Occipital; Posterior fossa; Surgical technique; Timing of surgery; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; CISTERNA MAGNA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DETERIORATION; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTERIOR FOSSA MASS LESION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUBOCCIPITAL CRANIECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 33645539965     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000210366.36914.38     Document Type: Review

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