Decompressive hemicraniectomy in a 2-year-old girl with a left middle cerebral artery infarct

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 523-525

  Tan, Marilyn A ^a   Salonga, Aida M ^a   Jamora, Roland Dominic G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES MANILA   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Decompressive hemicraniectomy; Functional outcome; Middle cerebral artery stroke; Pediatric

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; MANNITOL;

ARTICLE; BABINSKI REFLEX; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN SCINTISCANNING; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EXTUBATION; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FEMALE; HEART GRAFT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMIPLEGIA; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERREFLEXIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OPERATION DURATION; PARESIS; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; STUPOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646163027     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-005-0001-7     Document Type: Article

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