Multiple epidural hematomas and hemodynamic collapse caused by a subgaleal drain and suction-induced intracranial hypotension: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Roth, Jonathan ^a   Galeano, Eduardo ^a   Milla, Sarah ^b   Hartmannsgruber, Maximilian W ^b   Weiner, Howard L ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidural hematoma; Hemodynamic collapse; Intracranial hypotension; Subgaleal drain; Suction

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHOROID PLEXUS TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOPLASTY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; HEMATOCRIT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; LOBECTOMY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION;

CARCINOMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; DRAINAGE; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SUCTION;

EID: 78650923205     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3181fe6165     Document Type: Article

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