Decompressive Craniectomy

Decompressive craniectomy done on a patient that suffered a traumatic brain injury!

This is an emergency neurosurgical procedure that is performed on victims of severe traumatic brain injury or middle cerebral artery territory infarction (stroke) and is aimed to relieve the increased intracranial pressure and brain tissue shifts that occur in the setting of large cerebral hemisphere mass or space-occupying lesions.

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