Cranioplasty after decompressive hemicraniectomy: Underestimated surgery-associated complications?

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1293-1297

  Wachter, Dorothee ^a   Reineke, Kim ^a   Behm, Timo ^a   Rohde, Veit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bone flap reimplantation; Bone flap resorption; Decompressive hemicraniectomy; Surgery associated complications

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASEPTIC NECROSIS; BONE FLAP DISLOCATION; BONE GRAFT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CHILD; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE HEMICRANIECTOMY; DISLOCATION; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYGROMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

BONE FLAP REIMPLANTATION; BONE FLAP RESORPTION; DECOMPRESSIVE HEMICRANIECTOMY; SURGERY-ASSOCIATED COMPLICATIONS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE CEMENTS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880328316     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: 18726968     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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