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SUBMITTER: Clavijo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6399379 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in neurology 20190226
Decompressive craniectomy (DC) is a neurosurgical procedure useful to prevent and manage the impact of high intracranial pressure (ICP) that leads to brain herniation and brain's tissue ischemia. In well-resourced environment this procedure has been proposed as a last tier therapy when ICP is not controlled by medical therapies in the management of different neurosurgical emergencies like traumatic brain injury (TBI), stroke, infectious diseases, hydrocephalus, tumors, etc. The purpose of this n ...[more]