Intraoperative ultrasound imaging of the entire brain through unilateral exploratory burr holes after severe head injury: technical note
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B T Andrews1, T J Mampalam, E Omsberg
1Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
Surgical Neurology
|April 1, 1990
Abstract:
A portable ultrasound unit with a 3.5-MHz probe allows accurate imaging of both cerebral hemispheres and partial imaging of the posterior fossa through unilateral exploratory burr holes or a craniotomy. In patients with clinical signs of transtentorial herniation after severe head injury, this unilateral technique can detect extraaxial and intraparenchymal mass lesions more accurately than is possible with bilateral exploratory burr holes.