Complications related to positioning in posterior fossa craniectomy

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 520-525

  Rath, G P ^a   Bithal, P K ^a   Chaturvedi, A ^a   Dash, H H ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Complications; Posterior fossa craniectomy; Surgical positions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AIR EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY POSITION; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN SURGERY; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; CRANIECTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; END TIDAL CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OPERATION DURATION; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITTING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN EMBOLISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN STEM NEOPLASMS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMA, ACOUSTIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34047251698     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2006.02.010     Document Type: Article

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