Clinical factors associated with outcome in chronic subdural hematoma: A retrospective cohort study of patients on preoperative corticosteroid therapy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 873-880

  Berghauser Pont, Lotte M E ^a   Dammers, Ruben ^a   Schouten, Joost W ^a   Lingsma, Hester F ^a   Dirven, Clemens M F ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chronic subdural hematoma; Corticosteroids; Outcome; Recurrence; Surgery

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURR HOLE CRANIOSTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRANIOTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858746684     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31823672ad     Document Type: Article

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