Fat and neurosurgery: Does obesity affect outcome after intracranial surgery?

Neurosurgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 316-326

  Schultheiss, Kim E ^a   Jang, Yeon Gyoe ^b   Yanowitch, Rachel N ^b   Toientino, Jocelyn ^b   Curry, Daniel J ^b   Lüders, Jürgen ^b   Asgarzadie Gadim, Farbod ^b   Loch Macdonald, R ^c  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Obesity; Outcome; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN SURGERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGERY; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OBESITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 61449167939     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000336329.90648.17     Document Type: Article

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