Hemicraniectomy in older patients with extensive middle-cerebral-artery stroke.

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Published in N Engl J Med on March 20, 2014

Authors

Eric Jüttler1, Andreas Unterberg, Johannes Woitzik, Julian Bösel, Hemasse Amiri, Oliver W Sakowitz, Matthias Gondan, Petra Schiller, Ronald Limprecht, Steffen Luntz, Hauke Schneider, Thomas Pinzer, Carsten Hobohm, Jürgen Meixensberger, Werner Hacke, DESTINY II Investigators

Author Affiliations

1: From the Departments of Neurology (E.J., J.B., H.A., W.H.) and Neurosurgery (A.U., O.W.S.), the Institute of Medical Biometry and Informatics (M.G., P.S., R.L.), and the Coordination Center for Clinical Trials (S.L.), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, the Department of Neurology, University of Ulm, University and Rehabilitation Hospitals, Ulm (E.J.), the Center for Stroke Research Berlin (E.J.) and the Department of Neurosurgery (J.W.), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, the Departments of Neurology (H.S.) and Neurosurgery (T.P.), University of Dresden, Dresden, and the Departments of Neurology (C.H.) and Neurosurgery (J.M.), University of Leipzig, Leipzig - all in Germany.

Associated clinical trials:

Stereotactic Infarct Tissue Aspiration for Malignant Infarction of Middle Cerebral Artery (SMART) | NCT02609256

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