One-Stage Reconstruction of Infected Cranial Defects Using a Titanium Mesh Plate Enclosed in an Omental Flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 144-147

  Asai, Shintaro ^a   Kamei, Yuzuru ^b   Torii, Shuhei ^b  

^a Tajimi Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TITANIUM;

EID: 0842290824     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000100898.68014.6f     Document Type: Article

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