Cranioplasty infections - Adding insult to injury

World Neurosurgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2014, Pages E435-E437

  Hall, Walter A ^a  

^a State University of New York Upstate Medical University: College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Autogenous cranioplasty; Bone flap; Infection; Propionibacterium acnes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CRANIOPLASTY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; CRANIOTOMY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

CRANIOTOMY; HUMANS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84922333618     PISSN: 18788750     EISSN: 18788769     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2013.03.005     Document Type: Article

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