Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene membrane for prevention of adhesions in patients undergoing external decompression and subsequent cranioplasty

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 320-323

  Kawaguchi, Tetsuro ^a   Hosoda, Kohkichi ^a   Shibata, Yuji ^a   Koyama, Junji ^a  

^a Hyogo Brain and Heart Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Dura substitute; Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene; External decompression; Subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADHESION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; BLEEDING; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE INJURY; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SAFETY; SKIN INCISION; SPHENOID; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEMPORALIS MUSCLE;

EID: 0038302056     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.43.320     Document Type: Article

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