A craniotomy and craniectomy are two types of surgeries that involve removing a flap of bone from your skull to reveal part of your brain. During a craniotomy, the flap of bone is replaced at the end ...

Elective neurosurgery has quietly crossed a threshold: advances in minimally invasive techniques, anesthesia, and perioperative care have made a set of historically “inpatient” spine and neurovascular ...

1. Who performs a craniotomy? The craniotomy surgery is performed by a neurosurgeon. 2. Can minimally invasive keyhole brain surgery replace the conventional craniotomy? Minimally invasive keyhole ...

Retrosigmoid craniotomy is a surgical approach that can treat brain tumors, lesions, and other health conditions that affect the posterior fossa, an area at the back of the skull. Approaches like this ...

A supratentorial craniotomy is a surgery that involves temporarily removing a piece of bone in the skull to allow access to the brain. A person may have this surgery to treat tumors, bleeding, or ...

Neurosurgery is following a familiar path: just as orthopedics and cardiology moved key procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), spine and neurovascular surgeons now have the technology and ...

In elderly patients, neurosurgery must ultimately be judged not by what it corrects on imaging, but by what it preserves in ...

For the first time in Southwest Louisiana, neurosurgeons have successfully removed a brain tumor from a patient during an awake craniotomy procedure. Scary symptoms brought Dale Lutgring to her doctor ...