Primary or secondary decompressive craniectomy: Different indication and outcome

Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 612-620

  Al Jishi, Ahmed ^a   Saluja, Rajeet ^a   Al Jehani, Hosam ^a,c   Lamoureux, Julie ^b   Maleki, Mohammad ^a   Marcoux, Judith ^a  

^a MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c IMAM ABDULRAHMAN BIN FAISAL UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONICITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN INJURY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80053329043     PISSN: 03171671     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0317167100012154     Document Type: Article

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