Giant encephalocele: A study of 14 patients

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 406-411

  Mahapatra, A K ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Giant encephalocele; Outcome; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARNOLD CHIARI MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE STUDY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONAL SUTURE; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; GIANT ENCEPHALOCELE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOTHERMIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DEVELOPMENT; MICROCEPHALY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SUTURECTOMY; SYRINGOMYELIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; ENCEPHALOCELE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCEPHALY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYRINGOMYELIA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 84863509727     PISSN: 10162291     EISSN: 14230305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338895     Document Type: Article

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