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New Indian Journal of Surgery

Volume  11, Issue 1, January-March 2020, Pages 55-57
 

Original Article

Immediate Intraoperative Tissue Expansion in Cranioplasty

AbhinavAggarwal1, Ravi Kumar Chittoria2, Saurabh Gupta3, Chirra Likhitha Reddy4, Padma Lakshmi Bharathi Mohan5, Shijina K6, Imran Pathan7

1–7Senior Resident, 2Professor & Head, Department of Plastic Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER), Puducherry, 605006, India.

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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.21088/nijs.0976.4747.11120.8

Abstract

Craniectomy following head injury is a common surgery with a high rate of complications. Postoperative infection following cranioplasty leads to shortening of the scalp flap and leads to problems in closure. Various techniques have been described like local flaps, wide tissue mobilization and tissue expansion. Another technique, not so well described in literature, is Intraoperative expansion. We present a case of similar calvarial defect managed by intraoperative expansion to enable tension-free closure of the scalp. 

Keyword: Cranioplasty; Calvarial defect.


Corresponding Author : Ravi Kumar Chittoria