Decompressive craniectomy for traumatic brain injury: The jury is still out

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 441-442

  Hutchinson, Peter J ^a   Timofeev, Ivan ^a   Kolias, Angelos G ^a   Corteen, Elizabeth A ^a   Czosnyka, Marek ^a   Menon, David K ^a   Pickard, John D ^a   Kirkpatrick, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN STEM INJURY; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LETTER; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79957615245     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2011.583366     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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