A new improved method for assessing brain deformation after decompressive craniectomy

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2014, Pages

  Fletcher, Tim L ^a   Kolias, Angelos G ^a   Hutchinson, Peter J ^a   Sutcliffe, Michael P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN MALFORMATION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPLICATION; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; ORGAN SIZE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84907814043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110408     Document Type: Article

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