… a challenge to neurosurgeons, plastic reconstructive surgeons, and … prosthesis and the
muscle is secured utilizing nylon sutures. Our first cases involved fixing of the PMMA prosthesis …

… manufacturing of the implant was possible. CT data were used to manufacture exact plastic
models of the defects and master cranioplastic implants using stereolithography techniques. …

… The thin adhesive plastic drapes available now insure … pterion: the junction of sutures
between the frontal and parie- … defect may be covered with a small prosthesis. This may be made …

… implants were found to permit fibrovascularization which reduces the incidence and severity
of implant infection, increases the implant … polyethylene anophthalmic socket implants. …

… pterional or anatomical burr hole, is made at the pterion and commonly used in orbitozygomatic
surgical approaches [7,8,9]. Pterion … when bone grafts are implanted in cranial defects …

… Plastic surgeons have searched for an ideal material to use in skull reconstruction. Such …
Materials such as polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA), hydroxyapatite (HA) and polyethylene have …

… Various methods have been described to augment the defect including high density
polyethylene (HDPE) implants, methyl methylmethacrolate and lipotransfer, but all have their …

… first affixed to the implant and then to the craniectomy borders with … At our institution, plastic
surgeons inserted an inflatable bal… in Case 11; however, the pterional concavity was not well …

… neurosurgery and facial plastic surgery. Cranial fixation in … muscle atrophy for pterional
craniotomy. Technical note. J … advance compared with metal implants, however their costs …

… following a left pterional craniotomy for aneurysm clipping. … to be fundamental for the
implantation of SEEG electrodes. The … polyether ether ketone (PEEK), plastic, or metallic mesh is a …