Decompressive craniectomy for acute ischemic stroke

Table 2 Surgical complications after supratentorial DC. Data on surgical complications was extracted from publications of RCTs. Comparable information was found in only three articles, and representative percentages for the most relevant complications were calculated

RCT	No. of patients in surgical arm	Hemorrhage	Central nervous system and surgical site infection	CSF leaks, hygroma, and hydrocephalus	Seizures
Vahedi (DECIMAL) [33]	20	0	1	0	7
Hofmeijer (HAMLET) [27]	32	1	0	2	1
Chua (HeMMI) [32]	13	1	1	0	0
	65	2 (3%)	2 (3%)	2 (3%)	8 (12%)

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