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 ...

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.

In an international trial involving 450 patients with acute subdural hematoma, craniotomy (bone flap replaced) and decompressive craniectomy (bone flap left out) yielded similar disability-related ...

Researchers develop radiomics-based predictive models to assess the likelihood of progressively refractory intracranial hypertension leading to secondary DC. The multiomic model, which incorporated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with posttraumatic refractory intracranial hypertension treated with decompressive craniectomy showed ...

Aims To assess the course of visual function after neurosurgical decompression of the optic nerve during resection of intracranial tumours. To obtain information that may be used to counsel patients.

Among adults requiring surgical evacuation for traumatic acute subdural hematoma, it is not known whether decompressive craniectomy is associated with improved outcomes over craniotomy. New research ...

Craniotomy is a procedure in which a surgeon removes a section of the skull and replaces the piece of bone, or bone flap, immediately afterward using titanium screws and plates. In craniectomy, ...

Intracranial infection is one of the most common complications of microvascular decompression (MVD). However, the risk factors for intracranial infection after MVD remain unknown. The aim of this ...