Aesthetic outcome in patients after polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) cranioplasty - a questionnaire-based single-centre study

Neurological Research

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 281-285

  Fischer, Claudia M ^a   Burkhardt, Jan Karl ^a,b   Sarnthein, Johannes ^a   Bernays, René Ludwig ^a   Bozinov, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aesthetic outcome; Bone deformity; Cranioplasty; PMMA; Polymethyl methacrylate; Questionnaire

Indexed keywords

PALACOS; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOPLASTY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SKULL MALFORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SKULL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859308169     PISSN: 01616412     EISSN: 17431328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1743132812Y.0000000007     Document Type: Review

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