Complications to the use of vicryl-collagen dural substitute.

Gudmundsson, G; Søgaard, I · Acta Neurochir (Wien) · 1995

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

The authors describe 3 cases of postoperative infection as a complication after the use of vicryl-collagen dural substitute. The substitute had already partially dissolved 2 weeks after surgery with the remnant so densely adherent to the brain surface that it could not be removed without damaging the cortex. This was confirmed microscopically.

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