Decompressive craniectomy and early cranioplasty for the management of severe head injury: A prospective multicenter study on 147 patients

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 75, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 558-562

  Chibbaro, Salvatore ^a   Di Rocco, Fedreico ^b   Mirone, Giuseppe ^c   Fricia, Marco ^d   Makiese, Orphee ^a   Di Emidio, Paolo ^a   Romano, Antonio ^e   Vicaut, Eric ^f   Menichelli, Alina ^g   Reiss, Alisha ^h   Mateo, Joaquim ^a   Payen, Didier ^a   Guichard, Jean Pierre ⁱ   George, Bernard ^a   Bresson, Damien ^a  

^a Lariboisire University Hospital   (France)

^b HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d Cannizzaro General Hospital   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^f HÔPITAL FERNAND WIDAL   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^h THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ Laribosiere University Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; Early cranioplasty; Head injury

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; POLYMETHYLMETACRYLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; BONE ALLOGRAFT; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALGORITHMS; BARBITURATES; COMA; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DIURETICS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MANNITOL; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79956217661     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2010.10.020     Document Type: Review

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