Rotterdam computed tomography score as a prognosticator in head-injured patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy

Neurosurgery

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-85

  Huang, Yu Hua ^a   Deng, Yu Han ^a   Lee, Tao Chen ^a   Chen, Wu Fu ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; Glasgow outcome scale; Prognosis; Rotterdam CT score; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; ROTTERDAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCORE; SCORING SYSTEM; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862877332     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182517aa1     Document Type: Article

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