No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma
Abstract Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of planned control postoperative brain computed tomography (CT) scan performed 4 to 6 weeks after the evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma. Materials and Methods This retrospective study examined 202 pat...
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| author | Christian Bonde Pedersen Filippa Sundbye Frantz Rom Poulsen |
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Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of planned control postoperative brain computed tomography (CT) scan performed 4 to 6 weeks after the evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma.
Materials and Methods This retrospective study examined 202 patients who during a 2-year period from 2011 and 2012 underwent surgical treatment for chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH). Information on patient age, sex, alcohol consumption, anticoagulant/antiplatelet treatment, history of head trauma, Glasgow coma scale (GCS), neurological symptoms, laterality of CSDH, and surgical technique was retrieved from patient charts.
Results Overall, 27 out of 202 patients had a recurrence of CSDH and re-evacuation of the hematoma was performed. In all patients recurrence of neurological symptoms preceded the planned postoperative control brain CT 4 to 6 weeks after primary surgery.
Conclusion Routinely postoperative control brain CT scan 4 to 6 weeks after the evacuation of a CSDH has no clinical value. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c480d6d4e3ce4fe4bcf027a8df33b61d2022-12-21T22:21:27ZengThieme Medical Publishers, Inc.The Surgery Journal2378-51282378-51362017-10-010304e174e17610.1055/s-0037-1607215No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural HematomaChristian Bonde Pedersen0Filippa Sundbye1Frantz Rom Poulsen2Department of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, DenmarkDepartment of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, DenmarkDepartment of Neurosurgery, Odense University Hospital, Odense, DenmarkAbstract Background The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of planned control postoperative brain computed tomography (CT) scan performed 4 to 6 weeks after the evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma. Materials and Methods This retrospective study examined 202 patients who during a 2-year period from 2011 and 2012 underwent surgical treatment for chronic subdural hematoma (CSDH). Information on patient age, sex, alcohol consumption, anticoagulant/antiplatelet treatment, history of head trauma, Glasgow coma scale (GCS), neurological symptoms, laterality of CSDH, and surgical technique was retrieved from patient charts. Results Overall, 27 out of 202 patients had a recurrence of CSDH and re-evacuation of the hematoma was performed. In all patients recurrence of neurological symptoms preceded the planned postoperative control brain CT 4 to 6 weeks after primary surgery. Conclusion Routinely postoperative control brain CT scan 4 to 6 weeks after the evacuation of a CSDH has no clinical value.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0037-1607215chronic subdural hematomapostoperative ct scanevacuationrecurrence |
| spellingShingle | Christian Bonde Pedersen Filippa Sundbye Frantz Rom Poulsen No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma The Surgery Journal chronic subdural hematoma postoperative ct scan evacuation recurrence |
| title | No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma |
| title_full | No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma |
| title_fullStr | No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma |
| title_full_unstemmed | No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma |
| title_short | No Value of Routine Brain Computed Tomography 6 Weeks after Evacuation of Chronic Subdural Hematoma |
| title_sort | no value of routine brain computed tomography 6 weeks after evacuation of chronic subdural hematoma |
| topic | chronic subdural hematoma postoperative ct scan evacuation recurrence |
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