Taming a tyrannosaur: The decompressive craniectomy for traumatic brain injury has to become an evidence-based procedure

European Journal of Neurology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 543-544

  Lemcke, J ^a  

^a Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACCIDENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EDITORIAL; EMOTIONALITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERALIZED EDEMA; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LUNG CONTUSION; MORALITY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPINE FRACTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952715300     PISSN: 13515101     EISSN: 14681331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-1331.2010.03296.x     Document Type: Editorial

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