Those who have had craniotomy usually recover. However, severe intracranial lesions or complications from the surgery may leave sequelae after the operation.
In case of simple craniotomy, which does not cause much damage to the surrounding brain tissue as well as the neurovascular vessels, the patient can be discharged from the hospital after the operation after 7 days of observation and treatment. Normal life can usually be resumed in about 15 days.
In case of serious intracranial lesions, craniotomy is more complicated and may injure the surrounding brain tissues as well as the neurovascular vessels during the surgery, it may take longer to recover after the surgery, but it is difficult to return to the normal state completely.
If intracranial infection, brain abscess, or even systemic infection and sepsis are caused after craniotomy, the treatment time will be longer and the recovery will be slower, and the specific recovery time often varies from person to person.
It can be seen that it is possible to recover from craniotomy. The specific degree of recovery mainly depends on the severity of the patient’s condition, the complexity of the surgery, and whether there are complications and infections after the surgery.