Is Cranial Reconstruction With a Hard-Tissue Replacement Patient-Matched Implant as Safe as Previously Reported? A 3-Year Experience and Review of the Literature

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 323-327

  Nassiri, Naiem ^a   Cleary, Daniel R ^a   Ueeck, Brett A ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BONE INFECTION; BONE REMODELING; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HARD TISSUE REPLACEMENT PATIENT MATCHED IMPLANT; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKULL; SKULL DEFECT; SMOKING; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TISSUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149260277     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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