Treatment of cerebellar infarction by decompressive suboccipital craniectomy. | Zendy

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Treatment of cerebellar infarction by decompressive suboccipital craniectomy.

Author(s) -

Han-Jung Chen,

T.-C. Lee,

C P Wei

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

stroke

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397

H-Index - 319

eISSN - 1524-4628

pISSN - 0039-2499

DOI - 10.1161/01.str.23.7.957

Subject(s) - medicine , decompressive craniectomy , surgery , cerebral edema , decompression , stroke (engine) , ventriculostomy , intracranial pressure , head trauma , intracranial pressure monitoring , traumatic brain injury , hydrocephalus , anesthesia , mechanical engineering , psychiatry , engineering

We present an anecdotal series of 11 patients without past history of stroke with progressive neurological deterioration while on medical therapy for large cerebellar infarctions. Clinical signs of brain stem compression developed in these patients. Computerized tomography of the head confirmed mass effect from brain edema. It was the clinical judgment of the neurologists and neurosurgeons that each of these 11 patients would expire without surgical intervention.

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