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An Unusual Complication of Silastic Dural Substitute: Case Report

Published:1990-09-01 Issue:3 Volume:27 Page:491-493
ISSN:0148-396X
Container-title:Neurosurgery
language:en
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Author:

Ng Thomas H. K.¹,Chan Kwan Hon²,Leung Suet Yi¹,Mann Kirpal S.²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Pathology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

2. Division of Surgical Neurology, Department of Surgery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Abstract

Abstract A case is presented in which a patient developed an unusual complication after the use of Silastic dural substitute. In 1983. the patient underwent removal of a meningioma with the involved dura. Five years later, he developed around the graft material a very thick connective tissue capsule, which simulated a recurrent meningioma clinically and radiologically.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

Subject

Clinical Neurology,Surgery

Link

http://academic.oup.com/neurosurgery/article-pdf/27/3/491/32547560/00006123-199009000-00030.pdf

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