Long-term outcomes following decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic brain injury-how long should we wait to evaluate results?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2575-2576

  Rosenthal, Guy ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

decompressive craniectomy; intracranial pressure; long term outcome

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIECTOMY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80054931816     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31822e56c7     Document Type: Editorial

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