Advantage of Catcher's mask cranioplasty for post-surgical infectious skin trouble.
BACKGROUND
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.


METHODS
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.
Takumi
Ichiro
I
Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital, 1715 Kamagari, Inba-gun Inba-mura, Chiba, 270-1694, Japan.
Akimoto
Masataka
M
D000328:Adult; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012535:Scalp; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D012886:Skull / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous