Don't take the plunge: Avoiding adverse events with cranial perforators: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 570-575

  Vogel, Timothy W ^a   Dlouhy, Brian J ^a   Howard III, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HEALTH CARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical injury; Cranial drill; Cranial perforator; Craniotomy; Dural tear; Plunging; Surgical technique

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; BRAIN INTERVENTRICULAR FORAMEN; CANCER SURGERY; CRANIAL PERFORATOR; CRANIOTOMY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; DRILL; DURA MATER; ENDOSCOPY; FRONTAL BONE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INCIDENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LACERATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MENINGIOMA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLUNGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL FRACTURE; SKULL SURGERY; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGEON; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL RISK; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR BIOPSY; VELOCITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 80052379216     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.3.JNS101310     Document Type: Article

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