Traumatic acute subdural hematomas frequently warrant surgical evacuation by means of a craniotomy (bone flap replaced) or decompressive craniectomy (bone flap not replaced). Craniectomy may prevent ...

Background: For cases of severe traumatic brain injury, during primary operation, neurosurgeons usually face a dilemma of whether or not to remove the bone flap after mass lesion evacuation.

Andrew N. Wilner, MD: I am Dr Andrew Wilner, and I am here with Dr Christopher Streib, director of stroke operations at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Today we are going to be speaking ...

A major international trial has concluded that, where possible, surgeons should replace the removed section of the skull following surgery to treat a form of brain haemorrhage. This approach will save ...

A major international trial has concluded that, where possible, surgeons should replace the removed section of the skull following surgery to treat a form of brain hemorrhage. This approach will save ...

Neurosurgical procedures are easily among the most expensive treatments in the U.S. and the world, and decompressive craniotomy refers to a procedure where part of the skull is removed so that a ...

Researchers develop a radiomics-based machine learning model to identify patients with traumatic brain injury at risk of emergency decompressive surgery CHINA, March ...

Conclusions Among patients with traumatic acute subdural hematoma who underwent craniotomy or decompressive craniectomy, disability and quality-of-life outcomes were similar with the two approaches.