Assessment of outcome following decompressive craniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction in patients older than 60 years of age: A review

Neurosurgical Focus

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1-6

  Arac, Ahmet ^a   Blanchard, Vanessa ^b   Lee, Marco ^a   Steinberg, Gary K ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SAMUEL MERRITT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Decompressive craniectomy; Elderly population; Infarction; Stroke

Indexed keywords

AGE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKULL SURGERY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREPHINING;

EID: 68949113827     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10920684     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2009.3.FOCUS0958     Document Type: Article

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