New technique for decompressive duraplasty using expanded polytetrafluoroethylene dura substitute - Technical note

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 104-106

  Miyake, Shigeru ^a   Fujita, Atsushi ^a   Aihara, Hideo ^a   Kohmura, Eiji ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Duraplasty; Expanded polytetrafluoroethylene; External decompression

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN EDEMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEVICE; DURA MATER; EPIDURAL SPACE; HUMAN; LIQUORRHEA; MEMBRANE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE;

CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DURA MATER; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33644673730     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.104     Document Type: Article

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