Mortality after local allergic response to titanium cranioplasty

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1725-1726

  Hettige, Samantha ^a   Norris, John S ^a  

^a Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM; TRYPTASE;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; AUTOPSY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BONE PLATE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN NECROSIS; CASE REPORT; CRANIOPLASTY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; LETTER; MENINGIOMA; METAL IMPLANTATION; MYDRIASIS; NEUROSURGERY; NICKEL HYPERSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL DEFECT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TITANIUM ALLERGY; TRANSIENT GLOBAL AMNESIA;

BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; BRAIN; BRAIN EDEMA; CRANIOTOMY; DEATH, SUDDEN; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FRONTAL BONE; HUMANS; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REOPERATION; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865807352     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-012-1429-7     Document Type: Letter

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