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Steroids in the Treatment of Brain Edema

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Brain Edema / Cerebello Pontine Angle Tumors

Part of the book series: Advances in Neurosurgery ((NEURO,volume 1))

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Increasing experimental and clinical evidence has been accumulated on the efficacy of steroids in the treatment of brain edema since the first reports of GALICICH and FRENCH in 1961. Based on a large clinical study, this group showed that dexamethasone often resulted in the rapid and dramatic relief of symptoms and signs of increased intracranial pressure and neurological dysfunction associated with cerebral edema (11, 12,20). Since this enthusiastic report subsequent workers were able to demonstrate the correctness of most of these statements, using more refined techniques. The present report is an attempt to summarize these recent findings and to evaluate critically this mode of treatment of brain edema.

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Reulen, H.J., Hadjidimos, A., Hase, U. (1973). Steroids in the Treatment of Brain Edema. In: Schürmann, K., Brock, M., Reulen, HJ., Voth, D. (eds) Brain Edema / Cerebello Pontine Angle Tumors. Advances in Neurosurgery, vol 1. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-65734-4_14

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