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Hinge and floating decompressive craniotomy for infantile acute subdural hematoma: technical note
Cranioplasty complications after decompressive craniectomy (DC) in infants are not fully recognized. We aimed to devise and assess the efficacy of a...
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Medium-term clinical results in patients with floating hip injuries
BackgroundThe objective of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of our strategy for managing floating hip injuries.
MethodsFrom January 2014...
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The intracranial pressure–volume relationship following decompressive hinge craniotomy compared to decompressive craniectomy—a human cadaver study
ObjectiveDecompressive hinge craniotomy (DHC) is an alternative treatment option to decompressive craniectomy (DC) for elevated intracranial pressure...
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Decompressive craniotomy: an international survey of practice
BackgroundTraumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke have devastating consequences and are major global public health issues. For patients that require...
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Decompressive craniotomy in split-technique (DCST) for TBI in infants: introducing a new surgical technique to prevent long-term complications
IntroductionDecompressive craniectomy (DC) is rarely required in infants. These youngest patients are vulnerable to blood loss, and cranial...
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Posterior vault “free-floating” bone flap: indications, technique, advantages, and drawbacks
BackgroundThe enlargement of the posterior cranial fossa volume is considered one of the main steps of the surgical management of children with...
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Hinge/floating craniotomy as an alternative technique for cerebral decompression: a sco** review
Hinge craniotomy (HC) is a technique that allows for a degree of decompression whilst retaining the bone flap in situ, in a ‘floating’ or ‘hinged’...
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Greenstick fracture-hinge decompressive craniotomy in infants: illustrative case and literature review of techniques for decompressive craniotomy without bone removal
PurposeWe present the potential usefulness of a greenstick fracture-hinge decompressive craniotomy, a variant of a hinge-craniotomy, as an...
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Intramyocardial abscess and endoventricular thrombosis: a complex case
Infective endocarditis (IE) is today a public health problem, as the recent ESC Guidelines have also recalled. Abscesses can be complications of IE...
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Melanoma Brain Metastases: An Update on the Use of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors and Molecularly Targeted Agents
Brain metastases from melanoma are no longer uniformly associated with dismal outcomes. Impressive tumor tissue-based (craniotomy) translational...
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Decompressive surgery in abusive head injury: Experience from a Singapore children’s hospital and a review of literature
PurposeAbusive head trauma (AHT) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in children. Studies on pediatric head injury observe that AHT patients...
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Tips and Tricks to Safely Perform an Endoscopic Endonasal Trans-Sphenoidal Pituitary Surgery: A Surgeon’s Checklist
The authors aimed to develop an extensive preoperative checklist of CT scan findings during endoscopic access to the ventral skull base and implement...
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Ruptured Sylvian arachnoid cysts: an update on a real problem
PurposeSylvian arachnoid cysts (SACs) are the most common type of arachnoid cysts and the most prone to undergo a rupture. This event is considered...
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Neurosurgical clip** versus endovascular coiling for patients with ruptured anterior circulation aneurysms: A systematic review and meta-analysis
To compare the safety and efficacy of clip** and coiling in patients with ruptured anterior circulation aneurysms. A systematic search of four...
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A review on decompressive craniectomy for traumatic brain injury: the mainstay method for neurotrauma patients
Raised intracranial pressure is common leading cause of mortality in patients suffering from a traumatic craniocerebral injury. Currently, head...
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Hemicraniectomy and externalized ventricular drain placement in a pediatric patient with myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-associated tumefactive demyelinating disease
BackgroundAcquired demyelination of the central nervous system in children can manifest as multiple sclerosis, neuromyelitis optica, myelin...
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Low-grade glioma of the temporal lobe and tumor-related epilepsy in children
PurposeLow-grade glioma is the most common brain tumor among children and adolescents. When these tumors arise in the temporal lobe, patients...
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Efficacy and safety of the endoscopic “wet-field” technique for removal of supratentorial cavernous malformations
ObjectiveCerebral cavernous malformations (CMs) presenting with focal neurological symptoms or mass effects require surgical removal. In recent...
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A case of pediatric primary osteolytic extradural and complicated hydatid cyst revealed by a skull vault swelling
Hydatidosis is a parasitic infestation whose etiological agent is the larva of the cestode Echinococcus granulosus . It is a zoonosis, and the human...
