Surgical results of cranioplasty with a polymethylmethacrylate customized cranial implant in pediatric patients: A single-center experience

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 705-710

  Fiaschi, Pietro ^b,e   Pavanello, Marco ^a   Imperato, Alessia ^a   Dallolio, Villiam ^c   Accogli, Andrea ^a,d   Oapra, Valeria ^a   Oonsales, Alessandro ^a   Oama, Armando ^a   Piatelli, Gianluca ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c Department of Neurosurgery   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Custom made technique; Pediatric reconstructive surgery; Polymethylmethacrylate

Indexed keywords

POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); BONE CEMENT;

ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; BONE IMPLANT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIAL IMPLANT; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL HYPOTENSION; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS DISLOCATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL DEFECT; SKULL DEVELOPMENT; SKULL FRACTURE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL PRINTING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CRANIOTOMY; FOLLOW UP; INFANT; PLAGIOCEPHALY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY; SKULL; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; BONE CEMENTS; BRAIN INJURIES, TRAUMATIC; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PLAGIOCEPHALY; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84973392586     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2015.10.PEDS15489     Document Type: Article

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