Surgical management of traumatic acute subdural hematoma in adults: A review

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 54, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 887-894

  Karibe, Hiroshi ^a   Hayashi, Toshiaki ^a   Hirano, Takayuki ^a   Kameyama, Motonobu ^a   Nakagawa, Atsuhiro ^b   Tominaga, Teiji ^b  

^a SENDAI CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acute subdural hematoma; Indication; Salvage ability; Surgical management; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; ISCHEMIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; CRANIOTOMY; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; SKULL SURGERY; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREPHINING;

EID: 84925092126     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.cr.2014-0204     Document Type: Article

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