Integration of Bacterin Osteosponge Disc in Craniotomy Defects

Thuy M Nguyen and Tejpaul Pannu
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Tejpaul Pannu: Department of Neurosurgery, Michigan State University-College of Osteopathic Medicine, USA

Open Access Journal of Neurology & Neurosurgery, 2016, vol. 1, issue 4, 70-72

Abstract: Trephination has long been part of the neurosurgery repertoire of operative techniques to gain access to the brain for management of chronic subdural hematomas and tumor biopsy as well as part of a preceding step for craniotomy in tumor removal. Burrholes are the name given to these skull defects created and left behind from the act of trephination and for a certain period of time these defects were usually left unfilled. It was later found that these patients were cosmetically dissatisfied with the resultant depressions overlying the scalp; therefore, various methods of filling in these burrholes were developed. The purpose of our study is to determine if indeed the Bacterin Osteosponge is able to promote bony regeneration and to what degree. Full bony integration of the Bacterin Osteosponge disc will eventually undergo remodeling and therefore become seamless with the skull.

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Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.19080/OAJNN.2016.01.555570

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