Comparison of craniotomy and decompressive craniectomy in severely head-injured patients with acute subdural hematoma

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1632-1636

  Chen, Shih Han ^a   Chen, Yun ^b,c   Fang, Wen Kuei ^a   Huang, Da Wei ^a   Huang, Kuo Chang ^a   Tseng, Sheng Hong ^d  

^a CHIA YI CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acute subdural hematoma; Complication; Craniotomy; Decompressive craniectomy; Outcome

Indexed keywords

MANNITOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DIVERSION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIA; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL; PUPIL REFLEX; RESUSCITATION; SEIZURE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84355166598     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3182367b3c     Document Type: Article

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