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Cranioplasties applied with screws

Cranioplasty is a surgical repair of a defect or deformity of a skull. This patient required such a procedure after decompressive bilateral craniectomy because of generalized brain edema. At some point patient developed infection of the reimplanted autologous skull flaps, and their removal was necessary. Additionally, Massive subgaleal hygromas were found. Intraoperatively, the hygromas have been drained, multiple defects of the dura were covered, and cranioplasties have been applied and screwed on.