Clinical study of decompressive craniectomy in children
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Decompressive Craniectomy.
Decompressive Craniectomy (DC) is used to treat elevated intracranial pressure that is unresponsive to conventional treatment modalities. The underlying cause of intracranial hypertension may vary and consequently there is a broad range of literature on the uses of this procedure. Traumatic brain injury (TBI), middle cerebral artery (MCA) infarction, and aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Turkish Neurosurgery
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1019-5149
DOI: 10.5137/1019-5149.jtn.27576-19.3