Subdural electrode-associated complications: A 20-year experience

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 264-272

  Fountas, Kostas N ^a,b   Smith, Joseph R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Edema; Electroencephalography; Hematoma; Infection; Seizures; Subdural electrodes

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; FUROSEMIDE; MANNITOL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; DURA MATER; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPILEPSY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APHASIA; BRAIN EDEMA; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBDURAL SPACE;

EID: 35348908152     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000107358     Document Type: Article

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