Early external decompressive craniectomy with duroplasty improves functional recovery in patients with massive hemispheric embolic infarction: Timing and indication of decompressive surgery for malignant cerebral infarction

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 420-429

  Mori, Kentaro ^a   Nakao, Yasuaki ^a   Yamamoto, Takuji ^a   Maeda, Minoru ^a  

^a JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY SHIZUOKA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarction; decompressive surgery; quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7044245795     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2003.12.017     Document Type: Article

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