====== Brain herniation after cranioplasty ======


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This can present with either nonspecific symptoms leading to delay in diagnosis or acute neurological deterioration, memory disturbances, weakness, confusion, lethargy, and sometimes death if not treated. Cranioplasty is a time validated procedure used to treat paradoxical brain herniation with good and early neurological recovery. 

====== Case reports ======

Singla et al. a case report in which the paradoxical herniation occurred after cranioplasty which has not been described in literature
((Singla N, Latawa A. Paradoxical Brain Herniation after Cranioplasty: Secondary Sunken Flap Syndrome. J Neurosci Rural Pract. 2022 Jan 13;13(1):105-107. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1741565. PMID: 35110928; PMCID: PMC8803515.)).

===== Case reports =====
Death 
((Li J, Lin H, Long X. The Death from cerebral hernia after cranioplasty: A case report. Asian J Surg. 2024 Mar 25:S1015-9584(24)00545-1. doi: 10.1016/j.asjsur.2024.03.115. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38531742.))