Age and salvageability: Analysis of outcome of patients older than 65 years undergoing craniotomy for acute traumatic subdural hematoma

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 78, Issue 3-4, 2012, Pages 306-311

  Taussky, Philipp ^a   Hidalgo, Eveline Teresa ^a   Landolt, Hans ^a   Fandino, Javier ^a  

^a Kantonsspital Aarau ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acute subdural hematoma; Craniotomy; Elderly; Old age; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; BRONCHITIS; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM TREMENS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPERTENSION; INAPPROPRIATE VASOPRESSIN SECRETION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARKINSON DISEASE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PUPIL DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; STROKE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84866607181     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2011.10.030     Document Type: Review

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