Cranioplasty with individual Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymere (CFRP) medical grade implants based on CAD/CAM technique

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 144, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1193-1203

  Saringer, W ^a   Nobauer Huhmann I ^a   Knosp, E ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Allograft; Carbon fibre reinforced plastics; Cranioplasty; Skull defect

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER; PLASTIC; POLYMER;

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; ELASTICITY; ESTHETICS; FACIAL NERVE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HYGROMA; IMPLANT; MALE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; SKULL DEFECT; TECHNIQUE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE; WEIGHT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARBON; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; CRANIOTOMY; EPOXY RESINS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036434524     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-002-0995-5     Document Type: Article

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