Thirty-day mortality in traumatically brain-injured patients undergoing decompressive craniectomy

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 118, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1329-1335

  Huang, Yu Hua ^a,b   Lee, Tao Chen ^a   Lee, Tsung Han ^a,b   Liao, Chen Chieh ^a   Sheehan, Jason ^e   Kwan, Aij Lie ^c,d,e  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Graduate Institute of Medicine   (Taiwan)

^c KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Decompressive craniectomy; Glasgow Coma Scale; Mortality; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHILD; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURVIVOR; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84878733222     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.1.JNS121775     Document Type: Article

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