The Current Status of Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury

Current Trauma Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 326-332

  Kolias, Angelos G ^a   Viaroli, Edoardo ^b   Rubiano, Andres M ^a,c   Adams, Hadie ^a   Khan, Tariq ^a,d   Gupta, Deepak ^a,e   Adeleye, Amos ^a,f,g   Iaccarino, Corrado ^h   Servadei, Franco ⁱ   Devi, Bhagavatula Indira ^a,j   Hutchinson, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

^d El Bosque University ^*  (Pakistan)

^e ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^h UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

ⁱ HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^j NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND NEUROSCIENCES   (India)

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Author keywords

Cisternostomy; Cranioplasty; Decompression; Neurosurgery; Neurotrauma

Indexed keywords

BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID ANALYSIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID DRAINAGE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; ENCEPHALITIS; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MORTALITY RATE; NEUROMONITORING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW; SKULL DEFECT; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 85060055680     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21986096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40719-018-0147-x     Document Type: Review

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