Patients with traumatic brain injury and raised intracranial pressure who underwent decompressive craniectomy — in which a large section of the skull is removed to allow the brain to expand — had a ...

A decompressive craniectomy is brain surgery that removes a portion of the skull. When the brain swells following an injury, the pressure in the brain can build inside the skull, causing further ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Surgery to remove part of the skull after a traumatic brain injury allows the brain to swell and ...