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Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy

This article presents a very rare late complication of surgery to the posterior fossa involving a craniectomy: cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck, through the craniectomy site. Here we also analyse the possible causes of such complication.

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Autores principales: Caruso, Riccardo, Pesce, Alessandro, Piccione, Emanuele, Marrocco, Luigi, Wierzbicki, Venceslao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27875795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.11.016
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author Caruso, Riccardo
Pesce, Alessandro
Piccione, Emanuele
Marrocco, Luigi
Wierzbicki, Venceslao
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spelling pubmed-51212042016-11-28 Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy Caruso, Riccardo Pesce, Alessandro Piccione, Emanuele Marrocco, Luigi Wierzbicki, Venceslao Int J Surg Case Rep Case Report This article presents a very rare late complication of surgery to the posterior fossa involving a craniectomy: cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck, through the craniectomy site. Here we also analyse the possible causes of such complication. Elsevier 2016-11-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5121204/ /pubmed/27875795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.11.016 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Caruso, Riccardo
Pesce, Alessandro
Piccione, Emanuele
Marrocco, Luigi
Wierzbicki, Venceslao
Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
title Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
title_full Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
title_fullStr Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
title_full_unstemmed Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
title_short Cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: Case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
title_sort cerebellar hemisphere herniation in the neck: case report of a very rare complication following a posterior fossa craniectomy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5121204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27875795
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.11.016
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