Cranial decompression for the treatment of malignant intracranial hypertension after ischemic cerebral infarction: Decompressive craniectomy and hinge craniotomy - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1289-1298

  Kenning, Tyler J ^a   Gooch, M Reid ^b   Gandhi, Ravi H ^b   Shaikh, M Parvez ^b   Boulos, Alan S ^b   German, John W ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral decompression; Craniectomy; Hinge craniotomy; Intracranial hypertension; Malignant cerebral infarction; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HINGE CRANIOTOMY; HUMAN; HYGROMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; MALIGNANT CEREBRAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, MALIGNANT; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84861960916     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.2.JNS111772     Document Type: Article

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