Favourable long-term recovery after decompressive craniectomy: the Northern Finland experience with a predominantly adolescent patient cohort.
Tommi Kalevi KorhonenMaria Suo-PalosaariWilly SerloMaija J LahtinenSami TetriNiina SalokorpiPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2022)
Most of our patients made a favourable recovery and were able to continue school. No late mortality was observed. Thus, even in clinically and radiologically severely brain-injured children, decompressive craniectomy appears to yield favourable outcomes.
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