Decompressive craniectomy and head injury: Brain morphometry, ICP, cerebral hemodynamics, cerebral microvascular reactivity, and neurochemistry

Neurosurgical Review

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-370

  Bor Seng Shu, Edson ^a   Figueiredo, Eberval G ^a   Fonoff, Erich Talamoni ^a   Fujimoto, Yasunori ^b   Panerai, Ronney B ^c   Teixeira, Manoel Jacobsen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral autoregulation; Cerebral blood flow; Cerebral microdialysis; Decompressive craniectomy; Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTERY COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL COMPLIANCE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HERNIA; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEMISPHERE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MICRODIALYSIS; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; OXYGEN TENSION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84879229471     PISSN: 03445607     EISSN: 14372320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10143-013-0453-2     Document Type: Review

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