Acute subdural hematoma in the elderly; clinical and CT factors influencing the surgical treatment decision

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 73-78

  Petridis, A K ^a   Dorner L ^a   Doukas, A ^a   Eifrig, S ^a   Barth, H ^a   Mehdorn, M ^a  

^a UKSH Campus Kiel ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute subdural hematoma; Glasgow Coma Scale; Glasgow Outcome Score; Midline shift

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; PUPIL DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; REFLEX, PUPILLARY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67649576987     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: 14389746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1224096     Document Type: Article

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