Role of surgery in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 543-546

  Enam, Syed Ather ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN SURGERY; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMA; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DYING; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MORTALITY; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY; VEIN BYPASS; BRAIN VEIN; CRANIAL SINUS; PATHOLOGY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

CEREBRAL VEINS; CRANIAL SINUSES; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; SINUS THROMBOSIS, INTRACRANIAL; THROMBECTOMY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33847419284     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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