How many years can you live after craniotomy needs to be determined comprehensively according to the different conditions of the patients, less than a few hours or less, and more than no different from ordinary people, which has no effect on the survival cycle.
1. Craniotomy due to open injury, the surgical risk of such cases is higher, and the life may be in danger at any time before, during and after the craniotomy. Of course, if the injury is mild, it may not affect the life expectancy.
2. Brain herniation caused by trauma and subdural hematoma, the patient’s life may be in danger in a short time.
3. Craniectomy for benign tumors, if the prognosis is good, the general survival cycle can be restored to the level of normal people.
4. Craniectomy for malignant tumors, the survival cycle needs to be judged according to the postoperative radiotherapy, whether there is recurrence, etc., which can be as short as a few months or as long as decades.
Craniotomy is a relatively large-scale surgery, there is a certain degree of risk, the specific postoperative survival for a few years and the actual condition of different individuals has a great deal to do with the status of the disease. If you have any doubts about survival after craniotomy, you can consult the patient’s attending physician, so that he or she can make a professional clinical judgment based on the patient’s actual condition.