Contralateral acute epidural haematoma following evacuation of a chronic subdural haematoma with burr-hole craniostomy and continuous closed system drainage: a rare complication

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 396-399

  Panourias, Ioannis G ^a   Skandalakis, Panajiotis N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Burr hole craniostomy; Chronic subdural haematoma; Closed system drainage; Complication; Contralateral acute epidural haematoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BURR HOLE CRANIOSTOMY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLOSED SYSTEM DRAINAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LAVAGE; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646106063     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2004.12.014     Document Type: Article

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