title: Advantage of Catcher's mask cranioplasty for post-surgical infectious skin trouble.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Nippon Medical School Chiba Hokuso Hospital, 1715 Kamagari, Inba-gun Inba-mura, Chiba, 270-1694, Japan.
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Takumi
authors.forename: Masataka
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akimoto
mesh_terms: 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