Cranioplasty technique using carbon composite "intost-2"
- Author:
Nguyen Cong To
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
cranioplasty technique
- MeSH:
Skull;
Pain, Postoperative;
carbon
- From:Journal of Practical Medicine
2003;450(4):38-39
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
From Oct. 1997 to Oct. 1999 in Neurosurgery Department of St Paul Hospital, Ha Noi, 42 patients ≥ 4 years old underwent a cranioplasty for skull lacuna using carbon composite "intost-2". The pathologic postoperative conditions were 14.29% with extradural hematomas, 30.95% subdural hematomas, 54.76% cerebral wounds; located on frontal sited 40.48%, temporal 33.33%, parietal 21.43%, occipital 4.76%. Surgical produres were scar removal and cranioplasty 78.58%, scar removal and meningoplasty and skull repair 21.43%. These 42 cases were carried out succesfully with 7-10 hospital days, symptoms caused by skull lacuna were improved, only 1 case of failure
