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• TITLE: Decompressive Craniectomy in Posterior Fossa Ischemic Stroke

  AUTHORS: Luciano Santana-Cabrera, Guillermo Pérez-Acosta, Cristina Rodríguez-Escot, Rosa Lorenzo-Torrent, Manuel Sánchez-Palacios

  KEYWORDS: Decompressive Craniectomy; Posterior Fossa; Suboccipital Craniectomy; Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency

  JOURNAL NAME: International Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol.3 No.4, July 12, 2012

  ABSTRACT: Ischemic damage produced in the posterior cerebral territory causes significant morbidity and urgently must be considered if the patient need a surgical attitude. Surgical decompression by suboccipital craniectomy seams to be effective to treat secondary edema due to cerebellar damage or in posterior fossa, when medical treatment is not able to control side effects. We report a clinical case of a patient with a subacute ischemic infarction in the vertebro-basilar territory, with perilesional edema, and a posterior fossa decompressive craniectomy (DC) was carried out.