'Mind the gap': Resorption of a bone flap stored subcutaneously for 6 months

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 523-524

  Yap, C ^a   Macarthur, Donald C ^a   Hope, D T ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE FLAP; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BONE RESORPTION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL; HUMANS; MALE; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0036816636     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0268869021000030951     Document Type: Article

References (2)

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