Role of Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury - A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials

Neurology India

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2019, Pages 1225-1232

  Garg, Kanwaljeet ^a   Singh, Preet ^a   Singla, Raghav ^a   Aggarwal, Ankita ^a   Borle, Anuradha ^a   Singh, Manmohan ^a   Chandra, P ^a   Kale, Shashank ^a   Mahapatra, Ashok ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Craniectomy; decompressive; outcome; traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85075295358     PISSN: 00283886     EISSN: 19984022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.271260     Document Type: Article

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