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01-08-2012 | Letter to the Editor-Reply

The controversy of decompressive craniectomy (the “scandal” of the modern science)

Author: András Csókay

Published in: Child's Nervous System | Issue 8/2012

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Dear Editor: …

Cushing H (1905) The establishment of cerebral hernia as a decompressive measure of inaccessible brain tumors; with the description of intermuscular methods of making the bone defect in temporal and occipital regions. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1:297–314

Cooper DJ, Rosenfeld JV, Murray L et al (2011) Decompressive craniectomy in diffuse traumatic brain injury. N Engl J Med 364:1493–1502PubMedCrossRef

Csókay A, Láng J, Lajgut A et al (2011) In vitro and in vivo surgical and MRI evidence to clarify the effectiveness of the vascular tunnel technique in the course of decompressive craniectomy. Neurol Res 7:747–749CrossRef

Title: The controversy of decompressive craniectomy (the “scandal” of the modern science)
Author: András Csókay
Publication date: 01-08-2012
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Child's Nervous System / Issue 8/2012
Print ISSN: 0256-7040
Electronic ISSN: 1433-0350
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-012-1825-6

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