For patients with refractory traumatic intracranial hypertension, the impact of decompressive craniectomy on clinical outcomes is still a matter of debate. Some consider this surgery a way to 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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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