Decompressive hemicraniectomy for space-occupying cerebral infarction

Zentralblatt fur Neurochirurgie

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 195-206

  Uhl, E ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain oedema; Cerebral infarction; Decompressive craniectomy; Ischaemic stroke

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; HEMORRHAGIC VENOUS INFARCTION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INFARCTION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTUBATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; FEMALE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STROKE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949879647     PISSN: 00444251     EISSN: 14389746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1216362     Document Type: Review

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