Timing of craniotomy in a patient with multiple trauma including head injury

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-25

  Fukai, Junya ^a,c   Tsujimoto, Toshihide ^b   Yoshimura, Ryo ^a   Raimura, Masaki ^a   Kuwata, Toshikazu ^a   Hyotani, Genhachi ^a   Yabumoto, Michio ^a   Itakura, Toru ^c   IchiroKAMEI, ^a  

^a Departments of Neurosurgery   (Japan)

^b JAPANESE RED CROSS WAKAYAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abdominal injury; Craniotomy, laparotomy; Head injury; Multiple trauma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FACE FRACTURE; HEAD INJURY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; KIDNEY INJURY; LUNG CONTUSION; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERITONEAL CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; BRAIN INJURIES; BRAIN STEM; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FACIAL BONES; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; REOPERATION; SKULL FRACTURES; SPLENIC RUPTURE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 58849138880     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.49.22     Document Type: Article

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