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Basing on the material from direct measurements of cerebral temperatures in 18 neurosurgical patients the authors discuss thermal gradients between cerebral and related temperatures in normothermic subjects. Significant correlation was shown to exist between the subdural, epidural, and tympanic temperatures with small and rather stable offsets between them during continuous overnight recordings. Tty most closely approaches the subdural temperature in conscious subjects, but significant, temporal split between these two temperatures was noted in a patient with cerebral pathology.
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Mariak, Z., Lewko, J., Jadeszko, M., Dudek, H. (1994). Cerebral and Related Temperatures in Normothermic Subjects. In: Milton, A.S. (eds) Temperature Regulation. Advances in Pharmacological Sciences. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8491-4_23
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