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craniotomy
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craniotomy

Operation to remove or turn back a small flap of skull bone to give access to the living brain.



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When soldiers go down with a brain injury in the field, and their survival is at stake, modern corpsmen or medics are trained to perform craniotomies to allow the brain to swell and other advanced life-saving procedures.
Neurosurgeons are starting to not renew their privileges for craniotomies, just restricting themselves to back cases (and) creating a real bind
We do craniotomies on average, lately, of one a day.
 
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