Intracranial foreign body granuloma caused by dural tenting suture

British Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 652-654

  Onodera, Hidetaka ^a   Furuya, Yu ^a   Uchida, Masashi ^a   Nakayama, Hirobumi ^a   Nakamura, Homare ^a   Sakakibara, Yohtaro ^a   Taguchi, Yoshio ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Foreign body; granuloma; silk; tenting suture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTERIOR COMMUNICATING ARTERY; BRAIN EDEMA; CASE REPORT; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY GRANULOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENINGIOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUTURE;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HUMANS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SILK; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; SUTURES;

EID: 80051898844     PISSN: 02688697     EISSN: 1360046X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02688697.2011.568641     Document Type: Review

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