Hemicraniectomy in older patients with extensive middle-cerebral-artery stroke

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 370, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1091-1100

  Jüttler, Eric ^a,b,c   Unterberg, Andreas ^a   Woitzik, Johannes ^c   Bösel, Julian ^a   Amiri, Hemasse ^a   Sakowitz, Oliver W ^a   Gondan, Matthias ^a   Schiller, Petra ^a   Limprecht, Ronald ^a   Luntz, Steffen ^a   Schneider, Hauke ^d   Pinzer, Thomas ^d   Hobohm, Carsten ^e   Meixensberger, Jürgen ^e   Hacke, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCEROL; HETASTARCH; MANNITOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DISABILITY SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEMICRANIECTOMY; HERNIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY INFARCTION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANKIN SCALE; SEDATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; THERAPEUTIC HYPERVENTILATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRANIOTOMY; DISABLED PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84896470555     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1311367     Document Type: Article

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