Watertight dural closure: Is it necessary? A prospective randomized trial in patients with supratentorial craniotomies

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2008, Pages

  Barth, Martin ^a   Tuettenberg, Jochen ^a   Thomé, Claudius ^a   Weiss, Christel ^a   Vajkoczy, Peter ^a   Schmiedek, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cerebrospinal fluid leak; Dural repair; Watertight dural closure

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD SURGERY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CRANIOTOMY; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56749136231     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000310696.52302.99     Document Type: Article

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