Primary decompressive craniectomy is associated with worse neurological outcome in patients with traumatic brain injury requiring acute surgery

Surgical Neurology International

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Tapper, Julius ^a   Skrifvars, Markus B ^a,b   Kivisaari, Riku ^a   Siironen, Jari ^a   Raj, Rahul ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Craniotomy; decompressive craniectomy; mortality neurological outcome; surgery traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEUROSURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 85043576807     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21527806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/sni.sni_453_16     Document Type: Article

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