Decompressive craniectomy and hydrocephalus

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  De Bonis, Pasquale ^a   Mangiola, Annunziato ^a   Pompucci, Angelo ^a   Anile, Carmelo ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DURA MATER; FISHER GRADING SYSTEM; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LETTER; OPERATION DURATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SENESCENCE; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 79955918849     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31821787b6     Document Type: Letter

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