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Fibrotic-haemorrhagic reaction to synthetic dural substitute
1Department of Neurosurgery, University of Genoa, Medical School, Italy.
Acta Neurochirurgica
|January 1, 1995
Abstract:
A case is presented in which a patient developed a complication related to the use of Silastic dural substitute. Ten years after the initial surgery, a fibrotic-haemorrhagic reaction around the graft material was found, mimicking a recurrent meningioma clinically and radiologically. A review of the literature and suggested mechanisms of these complications are reported.