Hemicraniectomy for middle cerebral artery infarction

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 526-533

  Huttner, Hagen B ^a   Jüttler, Eric ^a   Schwab, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOANESTHESIA; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 58149177447     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-008-0083-1     Document Type: Article

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