Using hydroxylapatite ceramic buttons covered with periosteum to prevent cerebrospinal fluid leakage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 422-423

  Kasuya, Hidetoshi ^b   Shimizu, Takashi ^a  

^a National Defense Medical College   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ceramics; CSF leakage; Frontal sinus; Hydroxylapatite

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYAPATITE;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FLOW; CRANIOTOMY; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMAN; PERIOSTEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CERAMICS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID RHINORRHEA; DURAPATITE; FRONTAL SINUS; HUMANS; SKULL;

EID: 0032937641     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199902000-00122     Document Type: Article

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