Microfibrillar collagen hemostat-induced necrotizing granulomatous inflammation developing after craniotomy: A pediatric case series - Report of 3 cases

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 385-392

  Apel Sarid, Liat ^a   Cochrane, Doug D ^a   Steinbok, Paul ^a   Byrne, Angela T ^a   Dunham, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Avitene; Craniotomy; Inflammation; Microfibrillar collagen hemostat; Necrotizing granuloma; Textiloma

Indexed keywords

HEMOSTATIC AGENT; MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CRANIOTOMY; DERMIS; EOSINOPHIL; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GLIOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TISSUE NECROSIS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

ADOLESCENT; BIOPSY; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CHILD; COLLAGEN; CRANIOTOMY; EPENDYMOMA; FEMALE; GANGLIOGLIOMA; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MALFORMATIONS OF CORTICAL DEVELOPMENT; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 77957907777     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.8.PEDS10248     Document Type: Article

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