Reduction in wound healing complications and infection rate by lumbar CSF drainage after decompressive hemicraniectomy

CONCLUSIONS: In patients after DHC and open basal cisterns on postoperative CT, lumbar drainage appears to be safe and reduces the rate of surgical wound revisions and intracranial infection after DHC while the risk for provoking paradoxical herniation is low early after surgery.PMID:36681955 | DOI:10.3171/2022.10.JNS221589

Source: Journal of Neurosurgery - January 22, 2023 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Peter Truckenmueller Anton Fr üh Stefan Wolf Katharina Faust Nils Hecht Julia Onken Robert Ahlborn Peter Vajkoczy Anna Zdunczyk Source Type: research