Cognitive improvement after cranioplasty: A possible volume transmission-related effect

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 155, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1597-1599

  Jelcic, Nela ^a   De Pellegrin, Serena ^b   Cecchin, Diego ^b   Puppa, Alessandro Della ^b   Cagnin, Annachiara ^a,b,c  

^a IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADUA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEXAMETHYLPROPYLENE AMINE OXIME TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN DEGENERATION; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLUM; COGNITION; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; COMA; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LETTER; LONG TERM MEMORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SPATIAL MEMORY; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; COGNITION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880822727     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-012-1519-6     Document Type: Letter

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