Acute extradural hematoma associated with silastic dural substitute: case report
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Surgical Neurology
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
The author reports the occurrence of an acute extradural hematoma associated with a silastic dural substitute, originally implanted 13 years previously. A recurrent malignant meningioma also arose at the site of the previous surgery.
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