Decompressive craniectomy is a neurosurgical procedure in which part of the skull is removed to allow a swelling or herniating brain room to expand without being squeezed. It is performed on people with traumatic brain injury, stroke, Chiari malformation and other conditions associated with raised intracranial pressure. Use of the surgery is controversial.
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1. Wikipedia
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia Foundationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompressive_craniectomy, lead sectionQuote, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decompressive_craniectomy, lead section
Decompressive craniectomy is a neurosurgical procedure in which part of the skull is removed to allow a swelling or herniating brain room to expand without being squeezed.
2. The History of Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury (Frontiers in Neurology)
Zefferino Rossini and colleagues, Frontiers in Neurology, 2019history sectionQuote, history section
The use of "large" DC for patients with raised intracranial pressure following TBI was firstly reported by Kocher in 1901.
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