bone flap

The part of the skull that is removed is called a bone flap.

Wrapping the head is done so the brain does not herniate out of the bone flap, where the skull was cut.

The lateral film showed a polyhedral lucency where the bone flap had been cut.

Bone flaps are used to replace bone, such as in jaw reconstruction.

Dr. Newman cut the two hitch sutures holding the bone flap in place.

The spinous process may be removed to allow the lamina bone flap to be swung open.

After dropping the bone flap into place like the top of a Halloween pumpkin and tying the sutures, Newman was ready to close.

The deep circumflex artery serves as the primary blood supply to the anterior iliac crest bone flap.

A craniotomy is a surgical operation in which a bone flap is temporarily removed from the skull to access the brain.

The bone flap is then propped open using small wedges or pieces of bone such that the enlarged spinal canal will remain in place.

A study has shown that the larger the removed bone flap is, the more ICP is reduced.

Treatment most commonly involves the removal of the complete lesion during a single procedure, via the frontonasal bone flaps; recurrence is likely.

The bone flap is then replaced using titanium plates and screws or another form of fixation (wire, suture, ...etc.).

On August 18, Cheng underwent surgery to replace a bone flap in his skull that had been removed after the accident, in order to relieve intracranial pressure.

The less tissue-penetrating properties of the thermal neutron beams necessitated reflecting the skin and raising a bone flap in order to directly irradiate the exposed brain, a procedure first used by Sweet and his collaborators.

The section of bone removed, known as a bone flap, can be stored in the patient's abdomen and resited back to complete the skull once the acute cause of raised ICP's has resolved.

Once tumor removal is complete and hemostasis is absolute, the dura is closed and the craniotomy defect is repaired, either by replacing the original bone flap or with methylmethacrylate or hydroxyapatite.

Cranial Loop nonmetallic, cranial fixation device for postcraniotomy bone flap fixation, Neos Surgery S.L. (Barcelona-San Sebastián, Spain)