Surgical mortality at 30 days and complications leading to recraniotomy in 2630 consecutive craniotomies for intracranial tumors

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1259-1268

  Lassen, Benjamin ^a   Helseth, Eirik ^a,b   Rønning, Pål ^b   Scheie, David ^c   Johannesen, Tom Børge ^d   Mæhlen, Jan ^b   Langmoen, Iver A ^a,b   Meling, Torstein R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d CANCER REGISTRY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Complications; Craniotomy; Intracranial tumor; Postoperative hematoma; Postoperative infection; Surgical mortality; Survival

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; BRAIN LYMPHOMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPRESSION GARMENT; CRANIOTOMY; DISABILITY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HEMANGIOBLASTOMA; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; INFECTION RISK; INTRACRANIAL TUMOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MENINGIOMA; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEURILEMOMA; PATIENT MOBILITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMATOMA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TUMOR BIOPSY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955018833     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31820c0441     Document Type: Article

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