Decompressive craniectomy in childhood posterior circulation stroke: A case series and review of the literature

Pediatric Neurology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 193-197

  Montgomery, Alicia K ^a   Maixner, Wirginia J ^a   Wallace, David ^a   Wray, Alison ^a   MacKay, Mark T ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; HEPARIN; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PROTAMINE; UROKINASE;

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BONE GRAFT; BRADYCARDIA; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN AQUEDUCT; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN FOURTH VENTRICLE; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN STEM; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM INFARCTION; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; COORDINATION DISORDER; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DETERIORATION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHAGIA; EMERGENCY SURGERY; EYELID RETRACTION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYGROMA; HYPERTENSION; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; IRRITABILITY; JOINT STIFFNESS; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; NECK PAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NYSTAGMUS; OBSTRUCTIVE HYDROCEPHALUS; OCCIPITAL LOBE; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOPHOBIA; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREPONTINE CISTERN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THALAMUS; TREMOR; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS; VERTIGO; VOMITING;

BRAIN EDEMA; CEREBELLAR DISEASES; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865036190     PISSN: 08878994     EISSN: 18735150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2012.05.005     Document Type: Article

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