Proposed Use of Prophylactic Decompressive Craniectomy in Poor-grade Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Patients Presenting with Associated Large Sylvian Hematomas
- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 51 (1) , 117-124
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-200207000-00018
Abstract
OBJECTIVE. As a group, patients who present in poor neurological grade after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) often have poor outcomes. There mKeywords
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