Conservative Treatment for Delayed Infection After Cranioplasty With Titanium Alloy
| Autor: | Hu Yuanwei, Li Xiang, Kang Zhang, Ruirui Zhao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Decompression medicine.medical_treatment Conservative Treatment Implant removal 03 medical and health sciences Scalp infection 0302 clinical medicine Refractory Anti-Infective Agents Medicine Humans Surgical Wound Infection Titanium business.industry Skull General Medicine Plastic Surgery Procedures Cranioplasty Surgery Conservative treatment Otorhinolaryngology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Neurosurgery business Complication 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of craniofacial surgery. 29(5) |
| ISSN: | 1536-3732 |
| Popis: | Cranioplasty (CP) is considered a low-risk operation in the field of neurosurgery following decompression craniectomy. Nevertheless, CP is still burdened by surgical complications, among which early or late infections are the most common outcome-threatening ones. Most of infection cases occur within a week after CP. Except that, implant-associated scalp infection is the most common complication, and leads to implant removal in many patients with refractory and recurrent infection. The authors reported a patient presenting with epidural infection about 3 months after titanium implant and cured by anti-infective treatment for 2 weeks. |
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