Decompressive craniectomy for management of traumatic brain injury: An update

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Bohman, Leif Erik ^a   Schuster, James M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompressive craniectomy; DECRA; Hemicraniectomy; Outcomes; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMATOMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PUPIL REFLEX; SEIZURE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE MANAGEMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; BRAIN INJURY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893028480     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: 15346293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-013-0392-x     Document Type: Article

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