Results: 3

Palliative approach in acute neurological events: a five-year study

SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Acute neurological illness often results in severe disability. Five-year life expectancy is around 40%; half the survivors become completely dependent on outside help. OBJECTIVE Evaluate the symptoms of patients admitted to a Hospital ward with a diagnosis of stroke, subarachnoid...

Decompressive Craniectomy (DC) - Comparative Study of 30-Day Mortality in Surgeries of Severe Brain Trauma with Subdural Hematoma, with and without DC

Arq. bras. neurocir; 36 (1), 2017
Objective Compare 30 days mortality of patients harboring acute subdural hematomas in two series, one treated only by wide aspiration of hematoma and other with aspiration followed by decompressive craniectomy. Methods Comparing retrospectively two series of ASD with and without DC. Involved 81 TBI patie...

Hematoma extradural, revision de 42 casos
Extradural hematoma, review of 42 cases

Cuad. Hosp. Clín; 31 (3), 1980
El interes e importancia de esta lesion traumatica se ha renovado en los ultimos tiempos, lo que ha motivado al autor a hacer una revision de 42 casos de hematomas extradurales, atendidos en los ultimos 10 anos. Por el analisis de las historias clinicas, se hace una relacion del tipo de traumatismo sufri...