Pediatric cranioplasty: lessons from a 1940s neurosurgical procedure

No clear consensus exists regarding the best material and technique for use in pediatric cranioplasty. The immature bone in pediatric patients poses several challenges, such as rapid growth, skull growth restriction, plate migration, and tissue erosion. We present a pediatric cranioplasty from the 1...

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Main Authors: Max Kahn, Mark Calayag, Ashit Patel, Julie G. Pilitsis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-12-01
Series:Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214751914000395