… in routine use by plastic surgeons in soft… implantation requires open surgical access in
contrast to a stab incision or puncture site when using fat grafting, and, moreover, the implantation …

… resUlts Patient age at craniectomy ranged from 5 months to 12.5 years, with a mean age of
… custom-made plastic was 56.83 cm2. The mean time between craniectomy and cranioplasty …

… pterional craniotomies and 39 superciliary approaches were performed using the implants,
… These porous polyethylene implants are manufactured and sterilized by Porex Surgical, Inc (…

… implant. This is similar to the mind-set of a plastic surgeon faced with an exposed, infected
implant … 8 mm long) into the underlying pterional bone flap or custom implant, leaving 4- to 5-…

… The superior versatility of pterional craniotomy for the surgical clipping of intracranial … rigid
but may cause implant protrusion or scalp erosion in thin-skinned patients. Polyethylene is a …

… interhemispheric approach and the pterional approach to clipping … approach are reviewed
and compared with 34 ACom aneurysms contemporaneously treated via a pterional approach…

… liquid PMMA and pourus polyethylene pterional implants, without addressing soft … implant
design algorithm, allows for 2 virtual models to be fabricated and fused into 1 alloplastic implant…

… , various alloplastic materials, including porous high-density polyethylene implants,
hydroxyapatite and carbonated apatite cements, methylmethacrylate, and titanium mesh, have all …

… We utilized the dual mesh technique to reconstruct the curvature of the pterion. … polyethylene
implants are also available, with or without impregnated mesh [7, 15]. These implants may …

… , and high-density porous polyethylene. A detailed preoperative … tissue deformities in the
pterional or fronto-temporal region. … of the PEEK and PMMA implants is 3.5 mm. Published data …