Decompressive craniectomy in traumatic brain injury: The randomized multicenter RESCUEicp study (www.RESCUEicp.com)

Acta Neurochirurgica, Supplementum

Volumn , Issue 96, 2006, Pages 17-20

  Hutchinson, P J ^a,b   Corteen, E ^a,b   Czosnyka, M ^a,b   Mendelow, A D ^b   Menon, D K ^a,b   Mitchell, P ^b   Murray, G ^b   Pickard, J D ^a,b   Rickels, E ^b   Sahuquillo, J ^b   Servadei, F ^b   Teasdale, G M ^b   Timofeev, I ^b   Unterberg, A ^b   Kirkpatrick, P J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b European Brain Injury Consortium   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

decompressive craniectomy; Head injury; intracranial pressure; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PILOT STUDY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PILOT PROJECTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85052608685     PISSN: 00651419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-211-30714-1_4     Document Type: Article

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