Sinking skin flap syndrome in glioblastoma

BMJ Case Reports

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Kamiya Matsuoka, Carlos ^a   Shroff, Sheetal ^a   Tatsui, Claudio E ^a   Tremont Lukats, Ivo W ^a   Gilbert, Mark R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TEMOZOLOMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CONFUSION; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; GLIOBLASTOMA; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPONATREMIA; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINKING SKIN FLAP SYNDROME; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; UREMIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FOLLOW UP; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RARE DISEASE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLIOBLASTOMA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RARE DISEASES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84936128784     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1757790X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2014-207158     Document Type: Article

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