Abstract
Surgical management of elevated intracranial pressures due to stroke or traumatic brain injury has classically been through decompressive craniectomy (DC). There is significant morbidity associated with DC including subdural hygromas, syndrome of the trephined, and the need for subsequent cranioplasty. Alternative techniques including the hinged and floating craniotomy have shown promise though can still suffer from complications associated with an unsecured bone flap. We report a case in which a patient who presented with an acute subdural hematoma and associated midline shift that was successfully treated with decompression via thinning and re-securing of the bone flap in a “split-thickness decompression.”
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