Successful treatment of paradoxical cerebral herniation by lumbar epidural blood patch placement: Technical case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Seinfeld, Joshua ^a   Sawyer, Michael ^a   Rabb, Craig H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood patch; Craniectomy; Paradoxical cerebral herniation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD AUTOTRANSFUSION; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIECTOMY; HUMAN; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BLOOD PATCH, EPIDURAL; CRANIOTOMY; DRAINAGE; ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMANS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34548671657     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.neu.0000289731.27706.af     Document Type: Article

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