A craniotomy is a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull to access the brain. Craniotomies are often critical operations, performed on patients who are suffering from brain lesions, such as tumors, blood clots, removal of foreign bodies such as bullets, or traumatic brain injury (TBI), and can also allow doctors to surgically implant devices, such as deep brain stimulators for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, and cerebellar tremor. The procedure is also used in epilepsy surgery to remove the parts of the brain that are causing epilepsy.
Craniotomy is distinguished from craniectomy (in which the skull flap is not immediately replaced, allowing the brain to swell, thus reducing intracranial pressure) and from trepanation, the creation of a burr hole through the cranium into the dura mater.
A craniotomy is a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull to access the brain. Craniotomies are often critical operations...
Awake craniotomy is a neurosurgical technique and type of craniotomy that allows a surgeon to remove a brain tumor while the patient is awake to avoid...
or MRI scan. Treatment is generally by urgent surgery in the form of a craniotomy or burr hole, or (in the case of a spinal epidural hematoma) laminotomy...
carried out. These methods include transsphenoidal hypophysectomy, open craniotomy, and stereotactic radiosurgery. Medications that are given as hormone...
Modern surgeons generally use the term craniotomy for this procedure. Unlike in folk practices, a craniotomy must be performed only after diagnostic...
ecchymosis is a sign of basal skull fracture or subgaleal hematoma, a craniotomy that ruptured the meninges, or (rarely) certain cancers. Bilateral hemorrhage...
Bifrontal craniotomy is a surgical process which is used to target different tumors or malfunctioning areas of the brain. "Extended Bifrontal Craniotomy | Brain...
osteotomy using a diamond-coated threadwire saw in orbito-zygomatic craniotomy, in Asian J Neurosurg, vol. 10, n. 3, 2015, pp. 250-252 Brunori, A.; Bruni...
openings in the skull. This exposes the brain and allows operations like craniotomy and craniectomy to be done. The drill itself can be manually or electrically...
to perform stereotactic radiosurgery, first in India to perform awake craniotomy and laparoscopic spine surgery. Ioannis Pallikaris (Greek surgeon. Performed...
may be used in reconstructive surgery of the mouth. During pterional craniotomy, incisions are often chosen based on the ease of reattaching the temporalis...
surrounding collagen, providing space for new blood vessels to grow. Craniotomy for unruptured intracranial aneurysm is another risk factor for the development...
with a specially-designed clip. Whilst this is typically carried out by craniotomy, a new endoscopic endonasal approach is being trialled. Surgical clipping...
or penetrating depth electrodes under the dura mater, through either a craniotomy or a burr hole. The recording of these signals is referred to as electrocorticography...
2014 were the following: Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) Craniotomy for brain tumor (CBT) Discectomy Laminectomy Posterolateral lumbar fusion...
the ophthalmic literature would agree with the viewpoint that invasive craniotomy surgical procedures should be justified only by the presence of intractable...
this mystery will be solved; a woman undergoes a risky left temporal craniotomy. 23 4 "The 13 Year Stomach Ache" May 14, 2007 (2007-05-14) A teenager...
Walter Dandy of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1937. It consists of a craniotomy to expose the aneurysm and closing the base or neck of the aneurysm with...
drugs are effective or not effective at preventing seizures following a craniotomy, following subdural hematoma, after a stroke, or after subarachnoid haemorrhage...
(intraoperative ECoG) or outside of surgery (extraoperative ECoG). Because a craniotomy (a surgical incision into the skull) is required to implant the electrode...
overdue change." On July 14, 2017, McCain underwent a minimally invasive craniotomy at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, to remove a blood clot above...
in military ethics (terror bombing/strategic bombing), medical ethics (craniotomy/hysterectomy), and social ethics (euthanasia). Third, that the distinction...
human frontal bone. As these fragments lacked Beethoven’s diagnostic craniotomy cut from his autopsy, it was unanimously agreed that the frontal bone...
temporary drain is placed for 24-48 hours post op. In recurrent cases a craniotomy may be performed to attempt to locate the location of the CSF Leak. In...
successful operation of gastro-elytrotomy that is recorded, and also that of craniotomy, using Sims's speculum. Primarily, he is remembered for his description...
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