Complications of post–injury decompressive craniectomy

Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is a useful technique for the treatment of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) with intracranial hypertension (ICHT) resistant to medical treatment, increasing survival, although its role in the functional prognosis of patients is not defined. It is also a technique that is...

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Autores principales: Santana-Cabrera, Luciano, Pérez-Acosta, Guillermo, Rodríguez-Escot, Cristina, Lorenzo-Torrent, Rosa, Sánchez-Palacios, Manuel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500013/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23181215
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.100937
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author Santana-Cabrera, Luciano
Pérez-Acosta, Guillermo
Rodríguez-Escot, Cristina
Lorenzo-Torrent, Rosa
Sánchez-Palacios, Manuel
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description Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is a useful technique for the treatment of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) with intracranial hypertension (ICHT) resistant to medical treatment, increasing survival, although its role in the functional prognosis of patients is not defined. It is also a technique that is not without complications, and may increase the patient's morbidity and mortality. We report two cases of patients with TBI who required DC and suffered complications from the technique
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spelling pubmed-35000132012-11-23 Complications of post–injury decompressive craniectomy Santana-Cabrera, Luciano Pérez-Acosta, Guillermo Rodríguez-Escot, Cristina Lorenzo-Torrent, Rosa Sánchez-Palacios, Manuel Int J Crit Illn Inj Sci Case Report Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is a useful technique for the treatment of traumatic brain injuries (TBI) with intracranial hypertension (ICHT) resistant to medical treatment, increasing survival, although its role in the functional prognosis of patients is not defined. It is also a technique that is not without complications, and may increase the patient's morbidity and mortality. We report two cases of patients with TBI who required DC and suffered complications from the technique Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3500013/ /pubmed/23181215 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5151.100937 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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