Complications of titanium cranioplasty - A retrospective analysis of 174 patients

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 156, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 989-998

  Mukherjee, Soumya ^a   Thakur, Bhaskar ^a   Haq, Imran ^b   Hettige, Samantha ^b   Martin, Andrew J ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Craniectomy; Cranioplasty; Post operative complications; Titanium

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; TITANIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN EDEMA; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOPLASTY PLATE; DEVICE REMOVAL; EPIDURAL HEMATOMA; EPIDURAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FOCAL EPILEPSY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LATISSIMUS DORSI FLAP; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKULL DEFECT; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; TITANIUM CRANIOPLASTY; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE RETENTION; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND CLOSURE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BONE PLATE; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE PLATES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; FEMALE; HEMATOMA, SUBDURAL, ACUTE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TITANIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899897696     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-014-2024-x     Document Type: Article

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