title: Successful management of severe intracranial hypertension by surgical decompression.
abstract: Because of the rather disappointing results in the treatment of acute head-injury in adults, surgical decompression has been little used in the management of severe intracranial hypertension. The authors report the successful use of the technique for a child with encephalitis in whom cerebral perfusion was compromised.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003399:Craniotomy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011559:Pseudotumor Cerebri / Q000601:surgery*