Long-term outcome of subcutaneously preserved autologous cranioplasty

Neurosurgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 505-510

  Shoakazemi, Alireza ^a   Flannery, Thomas ^a   McConnell, Robert Scott ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal wall; Autologous bone flap; Cranial defect; Cranioplasty; Decompressive craniectomy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN TUMOR; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 69549117339     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000350870.69891.86     Document Type: Article

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