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Use of Clamp-Like Devices to Fix Bifrontal Basal Craniotomies: Three Case Reports.
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- Experience with PEEK Clamp Fixation of Custom Porous Hydroxyapatite Implants in Cranioplasty: A Preliminary Single-Center Feasibility Case Series.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Bone flap fixation with a polymeric clamp-like device in pediatric patients: a safe and effective method that allows bone growth and fusion.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026Article
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Abstract
The three case reports presented here provide clinical evidence of a configuration to easily and successfully fix bifrontal basal craniotomies with a clamp-like fixation device (Cranial LOOP™, NEOS Surgery, Barcelona, Spain): A 72-year-old woman undergoing resection of a meningioma at the sphenoidal level, a 43-year-old man undergoing clipping of an anterior communicating artery aneurism, and a 55-year-old woman undergoing macroscopical resection of a meningioma on the olfactory groove had their surgery performed through a bifrontal basal craniotomy, and, once the intervention was completed, the fixation of the cranial flap was performed using Cranial LOOP™, with a configuration consisting of two Cranial LOOP™ L at the basal lateral level and two additional products at the posterior frontal level. The result of this fixation was very satisfactory with no settling or artifacts during the follow-up. These cases show that Cranial LOOP™ can be used to fixate bifrontal basal craniotomies.
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