The role of postoperative patient posture in the recurrence of traumatic chronic s1ubdural hematoma after burr-hole surgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 794-797

  Abouzari, Mehdi ^a,c   Rashidi, Armin ^a   Rezaii, Jalal ^a   Esfandiari, Khalil ^a   Asadollahi, Marjan ^b   Aleali, Hamideh ^a   Abdollahzadeh, Mehdi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Burr hole; Chronic subdural hematoma; Posture; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ATELECTASIS; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SUPINE POSITION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTURE; RECURRENCE; SKULL;

EID: 35948959756     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000298908.94129.67     Document Type: Article

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