Decompressive craniectomy after severe traumatic brain injury in children: Complications and outcome

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 5-12

  Pechmann, Astrid ^a   Anastasopoulos, Constantin ^a   Korinthenberg, Rudolf ^a   Van Velthoven Wurster, Vera ^a   Kirschner, Janbernd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

children; complications; decompressive craniectomy; outcome; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC BONE RESORPTION; BONE DISEASE; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYGROMA; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; POSTTRAUMATIC HYDROCEPHALUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY INFECTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN INJURIES; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; FOLLOW UP; INJURY SCALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84928944323     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1393707     Document Type: Article

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