Case report of MR perfusion imaging in Sinking Skin Flap Syndrome: Growing evidence for hemodynamic impairment

BMC Neurology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kemmling, Andre ^a   Duning, Thomas ^a   Lemcke, Lars ^a   Niederstadt, Thomas ^a   Minnerup, Jens ^a   Wersching, Heike ^a   Marziniak, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARM WEAKNESS; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN PERFUSION; BRAIN REGION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GLIOSIS; HEMISPHERE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIMB DYSESTHESIA; MENTAL DETERIORATION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; SINKING SKIN FLAP SYNDROME; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TENDON REFLEX; WEAKNESS; BRAIN; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CRANIOTOMY; PARESTHESIA; PLASTIC SURGERY; SCINTIGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARESIS; PARESTHESIA; PERFUSION IMAGING; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 77956489845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-80     Document Type: Article

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