Subgaleal hematoma in a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome: To prevent stroke-like episodes, is treatment with aspirin advisable?

Child's Nervous System

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1479-1481

  Greco, Filippo ^a   Fiumara, Agata ^a   Sorge, Giovanni ^a   Pavone, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Childhood; Sturge Weber; Subgaleal hematoma

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; TOPIRAMATE; VALPROIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CASE REPORT; EDEMA; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD INJURY; HEMANGIOMATOSIS; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LETHARGY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PACHYGYRIA; PALLOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STURGE WEBER SYNDROME; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TACHYCARDIA; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VOMITING;

ASPIRIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; MALE; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; SCALP; STROKE; STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56349155999     PISSN: 02567040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00381-008-0662-0     Document Type: Article

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