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Please let me know if there is a type of brain surgery that is used only as a last resort?

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Brain surgery: The most common one would likely be a decompressive craniectomy done for the relief of pressure in patients with high intracranial pressures that have not responded to medical treatment.

Answered 7/7/2015

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