Editorial: Clinical value of decompressive craniectomy

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 364, Issue 16, 2011, Pages 1558-1559

  Servadei, Franco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDLINE; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; STROKE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN INJURY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; NOTE; SAMPLE SIZE;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79955158905     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1102998     Document Type: Editorial

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