title: Single-table autogenous calvarial grafting for cranioplasty.
abstract: We present data from 12 patients with cranial defects restored with single-table calvarial autografts which comprised the outer table of the calvarium and which were removed from the same area on the opposite of the skull vault or immediately adjacent to the cranial defect. Trauma (nine patients), congenital malformation (two patients) and operation (one patient) accounted for the cranial defects. The follow-up period has been 6 to 30 months. No bone resorption or infection occurred during that time. Only in two cases was there slight depression at the recipient site; no revision was necessary.
authors.affiliation: Neurosurgical Clinic, Dicle University School of Medicine, Diyarbakir, Turkey.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kulali
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kayaalp
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001847:Bone Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000379:methods* / Q000473:pathology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D012886:Skull / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic