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Two cases of chronic infection of the frontal bone and sinus are presented after resection of a tumour within the ethmoid bone and neurosurgical intervention for an aneurysm. Both were treated radically by means of a microvascular muscle transplant. Postoperative monitoring of one buried muscle transplant was done by the use of evoked muscle action potentials.
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Guelinckx, P.J., Lejour, M. Free muscle transplants for chronic infection of the fronto-cranial region. Eur J Plast Surg 9, 88–93 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00298946
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