Title: burr hole surgery
Long Title: IUPAC Gold Book - burr hole surgery
DOI: 10.1351/goldbook.11654
Status: current

Definition
Medical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the dura mater, to gain access during surgery, to relieve intracranial pressure, to evacuate a subdural hematoma, etc.

Related Terms
- dura mater: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11727
- intracranial pressure: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11836

Source
- PAC, 2015, 87, 841. 'IUPAC Glossary of terms used in neurotoxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2015)' on page 854 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0103)

Other Outputs
- html: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11654/html
- json: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11654/json
- xml: https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/11654/xml

Citation: Citation: 'burr hole surgery' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351/goldbook.11654
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