Decompressive craniectomy appears to be beneficial in patients with severe deep intracerebral hemorrhage, new research suggested. Although the results just missed statistical significance, possibly ...

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.

A controversial procedure that involves removing a portion of a patient's skull can save lives when people have severe brain injuries, a new study finds. The surgery, called a decompressive ...

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 ...

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 ...

We report a 23-year-old woman with right homonymous hemianopia and incomplete left inferior quadrantanopia and paracentral scotoma secondary to head trauma from a gunshot wound. The patient underwent ...

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

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 ...

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