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Decompressive hemicraniectomy for malignant middle cerebral artery infarction

Experience from the Western Province of Saudi Arabia

Haifa M. Algethamy, Afnan Samman, Saleh S. Baeesa, Mohammed A. Almekhlafi, Yousef A. Al Said and Ahmed Hassan
Neurosciences Journal July 2017, 22 (3) 192-197; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2017.3.20170051
Haifa M. Algethamy
From the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Algethamy), Division of Neurosurgery (Samman, Baeesa), Department of Internal Medicine (Almekhlafi), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Department of Neurosciences (Al Said, Hassan), King Faisal Specialist and Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Afnan Samman
From the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Algethamy), Division of Neurosurgery (Samman, Baeesa), Department of Internal Medicine (Almekhlafi), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Department of Neurosciences (Al Said, Hassan), King Faisal Specialist and Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Saleh S. Baeesa
From the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Algethamy), Division of Neurosurgery (Samman, Baeesa), Department of Internal Medicine (Almekhlafi), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Department of Neurosciences (Al Said, Hassan), King Faisal Specialist and Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Mohammed A. Almekhlafi
From the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Algethamy), Division of Neurosurgery (Samman, Baeesa), Department of Internal Medicine (Almekhlafi), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Department of Neurosciences (Al Said, Hassan), King Faisal Specialist and Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Yousef A. Al Said
From the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Algethamy), Division of Neurosurgery (Samman, Baeesa), Department of Internal Medicine (Almekhlafi), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Department of Neurosciences (Al Said, Hassan), King Faisal Specialist and Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Ahmed Hassan
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vol. 22 no. 3 192-197
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.17712/nsj.2017.3.20170051
PubMed 
28678213

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1658-3183
History 
  • Received January 18, 2017
  • Accepted May 2, 2017
  • Published online November 13, 2020.

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Copyright: © Neurosciences Neurosciences is an Open Access journal and articles published are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (CC BY-NC). Readers may copy, distribute, and display the work for non-commercial purposes with the proper citation of the original work.

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  1. Haifa M. Algethamy, MBBS, FRCPC,
  2. Afnan Samman, MBBS,
  3. Saleh S. Baeesa, MBChB, FRCSC⇑,
  4. Mohammed A. Almekhlafi, MBBS, FRCPC,
  5. Yousef A. Al Said, MBBS, FRCPC and
  6. Ahmed Hassan, MD
  1. From the Department of Critical Care Medicine (Algethamy), Division of Neurosurgery (Samman, Baeesa), Department of Internal Medicine (Almekhlafi), Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, and from the Department of Neurosciences (Al Said, Hassan), King Faisal Specialist and Research Center, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Saleh S. Baeesa, Division of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: sbaeesa{at}kau.edu.sa
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