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Evidence-based medicine is currently state of the art also within neurosurgery. However, most of the known techniques and approaches have been developed before the nineties of the former century. Series of cases were published reporting the success of a method. These were supported by personal views of charismatic leading neurosurgeons. For example, for a long time it was well known that evacuation of an epidural hematoma can be lifesaving, that decompression of a nerve root by removing a compressing lumbar disc can relieve the pain, or the CSF drainage in case of a hydrocephalus can relief signs and symptoms or be, ultimately, lifesaving. Trials have never been performed.
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Bartels, R.H.M.A., Westert, G.P., Rovers, M.M. (2019). Evidence in Neurosurgery. In: Bartels, R., Rovers, M., Westert, G. (eds) Evidence for Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16323-5_1
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