Sinking skin flap syndrome and paradoxical herniation after hemicraniectomy for malignant hemispheric infarction

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 560-562

  Sarov, Mariana ^a,b   Guichard, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Chibarro, Salvatore ^a,b   Guettard, Emilie ^a,b   Godin, Ophelia ^c   Yelnik, Alain ^b,c   George, Bernard ^a,b   Bousser, Marie Germaine ^a,b   Vahedi, Katayoun ^a,b  

^a HÔPITAL LARIBOISIÈRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Complications; Hemicraniectomy; Herniation; Malignant cerebral artery infarction; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PARADOXICAL HERNIATION; POSTURAL HEADACHE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINKING SKIN FLAP SYNDROME; SKIN DISEASE;

ADULT; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HERNIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL FLAPS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649123312     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.568543     Document Type: Article

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