Can midline brain shift be used as a prognostic factor to predict postoperative restoration of consciousness in patients with chronic subdural hematoma?

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 178-182

  Sucu, Hasan Kamil ^a   Gelal, Fazil ^a   Gökmen, Metin ^a   Özer, Füsun Demirçivi ^b   Tektaş, Şevket ^a  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Izmir Ataturk Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Brain shift; Chronic subdural hematoma; Restoration of consciousness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33746304192     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2005.12.036     Document Type: Article

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