Is supratentorial pressure difference clinically relevant? Analysis of 55 consecutive cases by bilateral intracranial pressure monitoring

Neurological Research

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 465-470

  Bekar, Ahmet ^a   Taskapilioglu, Ozgur ^a   Yilmazlar, Selcuk ^a   Ender, Korfali ^a   Aksoy, Kaya ^a  

^a ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Diffuse lesion; Focal lesion; Head trauma; Intracranial pressure gradient; Intracranial pressure monitorization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 47549100907     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/174313208X284269     Document Type: Article

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