Effect of cranioplasty on functional and neuropsychological recovery after severe acquired brain injury: Fact or fake? Considerations on a single case

Functional Neurology

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 273-275

  Corallo, Francesco ^a   Marra, Angela ^a   Bramanti, Placido ^a   Calabrò, Rocco Salvatore ^a  

^a IRCCS CENTRO NEUROLESI BONINO PULEJO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive rehabilitation; Cranioplasty; Neuropsychological evaluation; Severe brain injury

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY; ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DYSESTHESIA; HAMILTON DEPRESSION RATING SCALE; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; IDEOMOTOR APRAXIA; IRRITABILITY; LAWTON INSTRUMENTAL ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING SCALE; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TRAINING; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; CRANIOTOMY; PARESIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PSYCHOLOGY; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PARESIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SKULL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84924901200     PISSN: 03935264     EISSN: 19713274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.11138/fneur/2014.29.4.273     Document Type: Article

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