Does the incidence of traumatic brain injury in children increase after craniofrontal surgery?

Journal of Craniofacial Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1284-1286

  Gilardino, Mirko S ^a   Jandali, Shareef ^b   Whitaker, Linton A ^b   Bartlett, Scott P ^b  

^a MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bony defects; craniofrontal surgery; Traumatic brain injury (TBI)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL BONE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFANT; METHODOLOGY; ORBIT; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKULL FRACTURE; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; ORBIT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKULL FRACTURES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 80051551692     PISSN: 10492275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SCS.0b013e31821c6b2d     Document Type: Article

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