A burr hole is a small hole drilled into your skull. Burr holes are used when brain surgery becomes necessary. Burr holes are a first step to larger, complicated brain surgeries as well. To perform a ...

A burr hole procedure is a brain surgery that is often done after mild to severe head injuries. In this procedure, a brain surgeon drills a small hole in your skull to drain blood from your brain.

In this multicenter, open-label, controlled, noninferiority trial, we randomly assigned symptomatic patients with chronic subdural hematoma in a 1:1 ratio to a 19-day tapering course of dexamethasone ...

Use of a drain following surgery to drain a chronic subdural haematoma substantially reduces both mortality and haematoma recurrence. This is the conclusion of an Article in this week's Surgery ...

Craniotomy is a procedure in which a surgeon removes a section of the skull and replaces the piece of bone, or bone flap, immediately afterward using titanium screws and plates. In craniectomy, ...

Perioperative discontinuation of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) treatment for 12 days was not associated with a reduction in 6-month recurrence of chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) in older patients ...