Clinical and radiographic predictors of neurological outcome following posterior fossa decompression for spontaneous cerebellar hemorrhage

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1236-1241

  Dahdaleh, Nader S ^a   Dlouhy, Brian J ^a   Viljoen, Stephanus V ^a   Capuano, Ana W ^a   Kung, David K ^a   Torner, James C ^a   Hasan, David M ^a   Howard III, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebellar hemorrhage; Outcome; Posterior fossa decompression; Suboccipital decompression

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CEREBELLUM HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DISABILITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTERIOR FOSSA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEGETATIVE STAGE;

AGED; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864994551     PISSN: 09675868     EISSN: 15322653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jocn.2011.11.025     Document Type: Article

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