Reliability of cranial flap fixation techniques: Comparative experimental evaluation of suturing, titanium miniplates, and a new rivet- like titanium clamp (CranioFix): Technical note

Neurosurgery

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 902-905

  Lerch, Karl Dieter ^a,b  

^a Municipal Hospital Dortmund   (Germany)

^b Klinikzentrum Nord   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cranial bone flap; Cranial flap fixation; Miniplates; Skull flap fixation; Titanium implants

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE REMODELING; BONE STRENGTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DEVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD;

EID: 0032999456     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-199904000-00137     Document Type: Article

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