Sinking skin flap syndrome: A case of improved cerebral blood flow after cranioplasty

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 288-292

  Isago, Tsukasa ^a   Nozaki, Motohiro ^a   Kikuchi, Yuji ^a   Honda, Takashi ^a   Nakazawa, Hiroaki ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION DISASTER MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

XENON;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEPRESSION; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINKING SKIN FLAP SYNDROME; SKIN FLAP; SKULL FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; SKULL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURGICAL FLAPS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 4644231745     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000106433.89983.72     Document Type: Article

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