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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
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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