Decompressive craniectomy in 14 children with severe head injury: Clinical results with long-term follow-up and review of the literature

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 133-140

  Suárez, Esther Pérez ^a   González, Ana Serrano ^a   Díaz, Carlos Pérez ^a   Salido, Alberto García ^a   De Azagra Garde, Amelia Martínez ^a   Flores, Juan Casado ^a  

^a HOSPITAL INFANTIL UNIVERSITARIO NIÑO JESÚS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; Intracranial pressure; Severe head injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ANISOCORIA; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYGROMA; INFANT; INFECTION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MENTAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCHOOL CHILD; SEIZURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79960402458     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318211071f     Document Type: Review

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