Postoperative infection after duraplasty with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sheet

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 120-124

  Nakagawa, Setsuko ^a   Hayashi, Takashi ^a   Anegawa, Shigetaka ^a   Nakashima, Susumu ^a   Shimokawa, Shoko ^a   Furukawa, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duraplasty; Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene sheet; Vascularized rectus abdominis muscle flap

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CHILD; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; DURAPLASTY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECURRENT INFECTION; SKIN FLAP; SUBDURAL EMPYEMA; WOUND INFECTION;

CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037359373     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.120     Document Type: Article

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