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Fig. 6

From: Decompressive craniectomy for acute ischemic stroke

Fig. 6

Cranioplasty and autologous bone flap resorption. 3D reconstruction of a 57-year-old male patient’s skull after autologous cranioplasty following DC for left-sided malignant MCA infarction (a). One year later (b), significant areas of the bone flap resorption occurred (highlighted in red). The explanted autologous bone flap (c) shows the overall thinning and obvious holes due to resorption. A typical example of an alloplastic implant (d) after right-sided DC in another patient (11-year-old boy after TBI)

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