A suboccipital craniotomy is a surgical approach that allows a surgeon to access a specific area within the base of the skull. A person may have this surgery if they have a tumor or another issue ...

Pterional craniotomy is a surgery that involves removing part of the skull to access the skull base. Doctors widely use the procedure for managing certain lesions, tumors, and aneurysms. Pterional ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumors. It's invasive, risky, and it takes a long time for the patient to recover. A mother says years ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully removed a rare cancerous tumor wrapped around the spine and spinal cord of a ...

Among adults requiring surgical evacuation for traumatic acute subdural hematoma, it is not known whether decompressive craniectomy is associated with improved outcomes over craniotomy. New research ...

A patient from South Shore University Hospital, his new wife and a member of the medical team, talk about the successful first awake craniotomy procedure. Credit: Newsday/Reece Williams Stay logged in ...

LOS ANGELES ― A common dilemma in neurosurgery is whether to immediately replace the bone flap in the skull after surgical treatment of an acute subdural hematoma. In a new study, outcomes were nearly ...

To test complex brain functions during neurosurgical procedures, surgeons must operate on awake, locally anesthetized patients. This allows surgeons to interact with them and test how their ...