Craniotomy
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Craniotomy is a surgical procedure where a piece of calvarial bone is removed to allow intracranial exposure. The bone flap is replaced at the end of the procedure, usually secured with microplates and screws. If the bone flap is not replaced it is either a craniectomy or cranioplasty.
Classification
There are different craniotomies depending on which part of the intracranial cavity need to be accessed 1:
- frontal
- bifrontal
- parietal
- occipital
- pterional (i.e. frontosphenotemporal)
- subtemporal
- anterior parasagittal
- posterior parasagittal
- medial suboccipital
- lateral suboccipital
Complications
- infection including bone flap osteomyelitis, subdural empyema and cerebral abscess
- haemorrhage
- intracranial haemorrhage including remote cerebellar haemorrhage
- scalp/subcutaneous haematomas
- pseudomeningocoele
- tension pneumocephalus
-<a href="/articles/intracranial-haemorrhage">intracranial haemorrhage</a> including remote <a href="/articles/remote-cerebellar-haemorrhage-zebra-sign">cerebellar haemorrhage</a>- +<a href="/articles/intracranial-haemorrhage">intracranial haemorrhage</a> including remote <a href="/articles/remote-cerebellar-haemorrhage-2">cerebellar haemorrhage</a>
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Case 1: osteomyelitis post craniotomy