Decompressive craniectomy for malignant cerebral oedema of cortical venous thrombosis: An analysis of 13 patients

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 422-429

  Mohindra, Sandeep ^a   Umredkar, Alok ^a   Singla, Navneet ^a   Bal, Amanjit ^a   Gupta, Sunil K ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cortical venous thrombosis; decompressive craniectomy; malignant cerebral oedema

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; BRAIN EDEMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79957583266     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2011.578775     Document Type: Article

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