Prefabricated alloplastic implants for cranial defects

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 1233-1240

  Taub, Peter J ^a,b   Rudkin, George H ^a   Clearihue III, William J ^a   Miller, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; ALLOGRAFT; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE GRAFT; BONE PROSTHESIS; CALVARIA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; GRAFT INFECTION; HEAT TREATMENT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; MALE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SKULL; SKULL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037334473     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000046048.77472.23     Document Type: Article

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