A craniotomy and craniectomy are two types of surgeries that involve removing a flap of bone from your skull to reveal part of your brain. During a craniotomy, the flap of bone is replaced at the end ...

Most brain surgery requires doctors to remove part of the skull to access hard-to-reach areas or tumors. It's invasive, risky, and it takes a long time for the patient to recover. A mother says years ...

A supratentorial craniotomy is a surgery that involves temporarily removing a piece of bone in the skull to allow access to the brain. A person may have this surgery to treat tumors, bleeding, or ...

A patient from South Shore University Hospital, his new wife and a member of the medical team, talk about the successful first awake craniotomy procedure. Credit: Newsday/Reece Williams Stay logged in ...

The one-year, CAST-accredited Endoscopic Endovascular Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham offers comprehensive subspecialty training in endovascular neurosurgery. The program closely ...

The FDA is amplifying an effort underway at medical device distributor Medline that aims to correct certain neurosurgery kits containing hardware that may cause bone drills to break apart during a ...

Former IBF strawweight champion Ginjiro Shigeoka is under observation at a private hospital in Osaka, Japan, after undergoing a craniotomy following his split decision loss to Pedro Taduran over the ...