Use of polytetrafluoroethylene dural substitute as adhesion preventive material during craniectomies

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 798-802

  Vakis, Antonis ^a   Koutentakis, Dimitris ^a   Karabetsos, Dimitris ^a   Kalostos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adhesions; Craniectomy; Cranioplasty; ePTFE; Peridural scaring; Polytetrafluoroethylene dural substitute

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BLEEDING; BONE GRAFT; BONE RESECTION; BONE TISSUE; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; BRAIN EDEMA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPROTECTION; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SKULL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; AGED; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REOPERATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33750720640     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2005.11.026     Document Type: Article

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