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Cranioplasty Using Cadaveric Bone Graft for "Growing Skull Fracture" and Ten-Year Follow Up


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1 Dept of Neurosurgery, B.J. Govt Medical College, Pune, India
2 Ruby Hall Clinic, India
     

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Growing skull fracture (GSF), a delayed cranio-cerebral complication resulting from linear skull fracture with dural tear. Damaging effects on the developing skull and brain are significant. Dur-al tear results in leptomeningeal cyst formationwhich if left untreated progressively induces local resorption of skull bone resulting in GSF. It damages the progressively-developing brain. Various materials are available for cranioplasty. It is directed at protecting dura and brain. Ca-daveric bone is the most biological, physiologically suitable material available.It may have im-mediate effect on stopping skull-bone resorption. In our knowledge this is the one of the initial cases of reconstructive-cranioplasty using cadaveric skull bone in GSF. Its effects followed up with 10-years clinical&radiological studies. It is used with the intention of studying 1) host's ability to regenerate skull bone after cadaveric bone grafting and 2) short term&long term effects of bone grafting in paediatric age group.

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Growing Skull Fracture in Pediatric Head Injury, Reconstructive-Cranioplasty Using Cadaveric Skull Bone.
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Authors

R. Sangle
Dept of Neurosurgery, B.J. Govt Medical College, Pune, India
V. Varun Nivargi
Ruby Hall Clinic, India

Abstract


Growing skull fracture (GSF), a delayed cranio-cerebral complication resulting from linear skull fracture with dural tear. Damaging effects on the developing skull and brain are significant. Dur-al tear results in leptomeningeal cyst formationwhich if left untreated progressively induces local resorption of skull bone resulting in GSF. It damages the progressively-developing brain. Various materials are available for cranioplasty. It is directed at protecting dura and brain. Ca-daveric bone is the most biological, physiologically suitable material available.It may have im-mediate effect on stopping skull-bone resorption. In our knowledge this is the one of the initial cases of reconstructive-cranioplasty using cadaveric skull bone in GSF. Its effects followed up with 10-years clinical&radiological studies. It is used with the intention of studying 1) host's ability to regenerate skull bone after cadaveric bone grafting and 2) short term&long term effects of bone grafting in paediatric age group.

Keywords


Growing Skull Fracture in Pediatric Head Injury, Reconstructive-Cranioplasty Using Cadaveric Skull Bone.

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