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.

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 ...

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 ...

Call neurosurgery for head trauma with falling GCS (especially < 8), new focal deficits or pupillary changes, seizures, or CT showing epidural > 15 mm or subdural > 10 mm.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.