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Advantage of Catcher’s mask cranioplasty for post-surgical infectious skin trouble

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Introduction

We report the case of a patient with repeated intractable cranioplasty infections who was successfully treated by partially removing the graft after Catcher’s mask cranioplasty.

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Aside from the cost of cranial artificial implants, our simple method saves the cost of subsequent removal and implantation surgeries in the process of cranioplasty trouble shooting.

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This work was supported by the Mitsui Life Social Welfare Foundation.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital, 1715 Kamagari, Inba-gun Inba-mura, Chiba, 270-1694, Japan

    Ichiro Takumi

  2. Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital, 1715 Kamagari, Inba-gun Inba-mura, Chiba, 270-1694, Japan

    Masataka Akimoto

  3. NMS Cranio-Facial Institute, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital, 1715 Kamagari, Inba-gun Inba-mura, Chiba, 270-1694, Japan

    Ichiro Takumi & Masataka Akimoto

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Takumi, I., Akimoto, M. Advantage of Catcher’s mask cranioplasty for post-surgical infectious skin trouble. Childs Nerv Syst 25, 493–495 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00381-008-0793-3

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