Reconstructive approach to hostile cranioplasty: A review of the University of Chicago experience

Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1036-1043

  Fong, Abigail J ^a   Lemelman, Benjamin T ^a   Lam, Sandi ^b   Kleiber, Grant M ^a   Reid, Russell R ^a   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial defect; Cranial reconstruction; Cranioplasty; Hostile cranium; Non vascularized bone; Vascularized bone

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE GRAFT; CHIMERIC FREE FLAP; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRANIOPLASTY; DECISION MAKING; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; GRAFT FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; LIQUORRHEA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NON VASCULARIZED BONE; NON VASCULARIZED BONE WITH FREE FLAP; PARTIAL FLAP NECROSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SKULL DEFECT; SURGICAL APPROACH; THROMBOSIS OF THE ANASTOMOSIS; TISSUE FLAP; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CRANIAL SEVERITY SCORE OF HOSTILITY; VASCULARIZED BONE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAK; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LENGTH OF STAY; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VASCULARIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEAK; CHICAGO; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938745772     PISSN: 17486815     EISSN: 18780539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2015.04.014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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