ReviewFrontiers in neurology2019
The Role of Decompressive Craniectomy in Limited Resource Environments.
Review in Frontiers in neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06776614 (A Comparative-effectiveness Study on Expansion Craniotomy Versus Decompressive Craniectomy for Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients With Intracranial Compartment Syndrome), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers.
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A Comparative-effectiveness Study on Expansion Craniotomy Versus Decompressive Craniectomy for Surgical Management of Traumatic Brain Injury in Patients With Intracranial Compartment Syndrome
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Paediatric traumatic brain injury: unique population and unique challenges.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2026Review
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- Traumatic Brain Injury: Advances in Diagnostic Techniques and Treatment Modalities.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Craniectomy and Cranioplasty Effects on Balance and Gait in Rehabilitation: A Retrospective Study.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2024Article
- Basic study on cryopreservation of rat calvarial osteoblasts with different cryoprotectants.Cell and tissue banking · 2024Article
- Intraparenchymal fiberoptic intracranial pressure monitoring and decompressive craniectomy in meningioma case with critical intracranial pressure: A case report during COVID-19 pandemic.International journal of surgery case reports · 2022Article
- Consensus statement from the international consensus meeting on post-traumatic cranioplasty.Acta neurochirurgica · 2021Article
- International Neurotrauma Training Based on North-South Collaborations: Results of an Inter-institutional Program in the Era of Global Neurosurgery.Frontiers in surgery · 2021Article
- Decompressive Craniectomy in Traumatic Brain Injury: An Institutional Experience of 131 Cases in Two Years.Neurotrauma reports · 2020Article
- Clinical Aspects, Diagnosis and Management of Cerebral Vein and Dural Sinus Thrombosis: A Literature Review.Saudi journal of medicine & medical sciencesReview
- Protocol-Based Early Decompressive Craniectomy in a Resource-Constrained Environment: A Tertiary Care Hospital Experience.Asian journal of neurosurgeryArticle
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7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
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 narrative review is to discuss the role of DC in areas of low neurosurgical and neurocritical care resources. We performed a literature review with a specific search strategy in web repositories and some local and regional journals from Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs). The most common publications include case reports, case series and observational studies describing the benefits of the procedure on different pathologies but with several types of biases due to the absence of robust studies or clinical registries analysis in these kinds of environments.
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