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Emergency Craniotomy in Patients Worsening Due to Expanded Cerebral Hematoma
Neurol 58:1367-1372,1325, Rabinstein,A.A.,et al, 2002
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Article Abstract
Craniotomy for rapidly worsening patients with supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage and radiologic signs of brain tissue shift may result in functional independence in approximately a quarter of patients. However, all comatose patients w ho lost upper brainstem reflexes and had extensor posturing died despite surgery.
 
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