patients with spontaneous basal ganglia hemorrhage (SBH) survive the first year. The need to develop a more effective treatment is obvious.1-3
Decompressive craniectomy has been reported to be beneficial in a number of conditions, including traumatic brain injury, hemispheric stroke, and ICH associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage.4-6 However, the application of this surgical technique in patients with SBH was much less frequent. This study was designed to investigate whether decompressive craniectomy in addition to hematoma evacuation could improve the outcome of patients with SBH.