Delayed post-operative contralateral epidural hematoma in a patient with right-sided acute subdural hematoma: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Saberi, Hooshang ^a   Meybodi, Ali Tayebi ^a   Meybodi, Keyvan Tayebi ^a   Habibi, Zohreh ^a   Mirsadeghi, Sayed Mohammad Haji ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MANNITOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN SURGERY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DRUG MEGADOSE; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MALE; MYDRIASIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 77953426614     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4076/1757-1626-2-6282     Document Type: Article

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