From Incan time to today, the unresolved problem of cranioplasty

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages E439-E441

  Ducati, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Autogenous cranioplasty; Bone flap; Infection; Propionibacterium acnes

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HERNIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTUSION; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DURAL SUBSTITUTE; HUMAN; HYGROMA; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REVIEW; SYNDROME; SYNDROME OF THE TREPHINATED; TRACHEOSTOMY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84922284345     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.07.089     Document Type: Article

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