Hemorrhagic complications in association with silastic dural substitute: Pediatric and adult case reports with a review of the literature

Neurosurgery

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 201-206

  Robertson, Scott C ^a   Menezes, Arnold H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Dural substitute; Hemorrhage; Neomembrane; Silastic graft

Indexed keywords

SILASTIC;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CHIARI FROMMEL SYNDROME; CRANIOFACIAL SYNOSTOSIS; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; POSTERIOR FOSSA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

ADULT; ARNOLD-CHIARI MALFORMATION; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CRANIOSYNOSTOSES; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMATOMA, EPIDURAL, CRANIAL; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REOPERATION; SILICONE ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0031036158     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199701000-00046     Document Type: Article

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