MetaGlossary.com: Burr Hole

Keywords: Skull, Drill, Intracranial, Exploratory, Surgical

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A 1cm-diameter hole cut in the skull using a drill.

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a surgical opening in the skull that is usually about the size of a nickel

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A hole drilled in the skull. This is usually to suck out a collection of blood or to insert a gauge for monitoring INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE (qv). Before the advent of the CT SCAN (qv), burr holes were drilled in some circumstances as an exploratory procedure.

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A small opening in the skull made with a surgical drill.

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Surgical hole made in the skull

http://www.ich.ucl.ac.uk/factsheets/families/F010502/index2.html

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