A burr hole procedure is a brain surgery that is often done after mild to severe head injuries. In this procedure, a brain surgeon drills a small hole in your skull to drain blood from your brain.

In this multicenter, open-label, controlled, noninferiority trial, we randomly assigned symptomatic patients with chronic subdural hematoma in a 1:1 ratio to a 19-day tapering course of dexamethasone ...

Using irrigation warmed to body temperature during burr hole evacuation for chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) cuts the risk for recurrence by more than half compared and should become the standard of ...

Perioperative discontinuation of acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) treatment for 12 days was not associated with a reduction in 6-month recurrence of chronic subdural hematoma (cSDH) in older patients ...

Dexamethasone treatment failed to demonstrate noninferiority to surgery for chronic subdural hematoma and was associated with more complications and a greater risk of later surgery, according to ...