Free flap transfer for the treatment of intractable postcraniotomy subdural empyemas and epidural abscesses

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 2 SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages

  Mikami, Takeshi ^a   Minamida, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugino, Toshiya ^a   Koyanagi, Izumi ^a   Yotsuyanagi, Takatoshi ^a   Houkin, Kiyohiro ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Epidural abscess; Free flap transfer; Intractable postcraniotomy infections

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; INFECTION; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SKULL TUMOR; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIOTOMY; EMPYEMA, SUBDURAL; EPIDURAL ABSCESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33846950810     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249253.63546.19     Document Type: Article

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