Surgical decompression improves mortality and morbidity after large territory acute cerebral infarction: A critically appraised topic

Neurologist

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 63-66

  Starling, Amaal J ^a   Wellik, Kay E ^b   Hoffman Snyder, Charlene R ^a   Aguilar, Maria I ^a   Demaerschalk, Bart M ^a   Zimmerman, Richard S ^a   Wingerchuk, Dean M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b Division of Education Administration   (United States)

Author keywords

critically appraised topic; evidence based medicine; hemicraniectomy; infarction; meta analysis; Stroke; surgical decompression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE COURSE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SLURRED SPEECH; STROKE;

CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MEDLINE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78651351406     PISSN: 10747931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NRL.0b013e3182053bba     Document Type: Article

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