Impact of age on complications and outcome in meningioma surgery

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 407-411

  Boviatsis, Efstathios J ^a   Bouras, Triantafyllos I ^a   Kouyialis, Andreas T ^a   Themistocleous, Marios S ^a   Sakas, Damianos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Brain surgery; Complications; Elderly; Meningioma; Supratentorial

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CANCER SURGERY; CARDIOPULMONARY INSUFFICIENCY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGIOMA; MOBILIZATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648825968     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2006.11.071     Document Type: Article

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