Survival with good outcome after cerebral herniation and Duret hemorrhage caused by traumatic brain injury: Case report

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1242-1246

  Stiver, Shirley I ^a,b   Gean, Alisa D ^a,b   Manley, Geoffrey T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracranial hypertension; Outcome; Traumatic brain injury; Traumatic brainstem hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COGNITION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SKULL DEFECT; SPEECH REHABILITATION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADULT; BRAIN STEM HEMORRHAGE, TRAUMATIC; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650851535     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2008.8.JNS08314     Document Type: Article

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