Nonsurgical treatment of chronic subdural hematoma with tranexamic acid

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 332-337

  Kageyama, Hiroshi ^a,b   Toyooka, Terushige ^a   Tsuzuki, Nobusuke ^a   Oka, Kazunari ^a  

^a Kuki General Hospital   (Japan)

^b JUNTENDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic subdural hematoma; Fibrinolysis; Kallikrein system; Tranexamic acid; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DRUG EFFICACY; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GAIT DISORDER; HEAD INJURY; HEADACHE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POLYURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; BRAIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TRANEXAMIC ACID; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84881177979     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.3.JNS122162     Document Type: Article

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