Decompressive Craniectomy for Traumatic Brain Injury

Schmidek and Sweet Operative Neurosurgical Techniques: Indications, Methods, and Results: Sixth Edition

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 1551-1557

  Potts, Matthew B ^a   Sughrue, Michael E ^a   Stiver, Shirley I ^b   Pitts, Lawrence H ^b   Manley, Geoffrey T ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-4160-6839-6.10135-2     Document Type: Chapter

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