Pediatric supratentorial subdural empyemas: A retrospective analysis of 65 cases

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-18

  Banerjee, Anirban Deep ^a   Pandey, Paritosh ^a   Devi, B Indira ^a   Sampath, S ^a   Chandramouli, B A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Chronic suppurative otitis media; Glasgow Coma Scale; Intracranial subdural empyema; Pediatric subdural empyema; Subdural empyema, management; Subdural empyema, outcome; Supratentorial subdural empyema

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CEFOTAXIME; ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; METRONIDAZOLE; PYRAZINAMIDE; PYRIDOXINE; RIFAMPICIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHRONIC SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; CRANIOTOMY; DROWSINESS; EPILEPTIC STATE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SINUSITIS; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SUPRATENTORIAL SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; DRAINAGE; EMPYEMA, SUBDURAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60049094349     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000202619     Document Type: Article

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