Kathleen R Ran, Vikas N Vattipally, Ganiat A Giwa, Saket Myneni, Divyaansh Raj, Joseph M Dardick, Jordina Rincon-Torroella, Xiaobu Ye, James P Byrne, Jose I Suarez, Shih-Chun Lin, Christopher M Jackson, Debraj Mukherjee, Gary L Gallia, Judy Huang, Jon D Weingart, Tej D Azad, Chetan Bettegowda
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Acute subdural hematoma (aSDH) after traumatic brain injury frequently requires emergent craniotomy (CO) or decompressive craniectomy (DC). We sought to determine the variables associated with either surgical approach and to compare outcomes between matched patients. METHODS: A multi-center retrospective review was used to identify traumatic aSDH patients who underwent CO or DC. Patient variables independently associated with surgical approach were used for coarsened exact matching...
November 18, 2023: Journal of Clinical Neuroscience: Official Journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia