R. Fontana et al., SPONTANEOUS HEMATOMA AS UNUSUAL COMPLICATION OF SILASTIC DURAL SUBSTITUTE - REPORT OF 2 CASES, Acta neurochirurgica, 115(1-2), 1992, pp. 64-66
Two cases of an unusual complication of synthetic duraplasty are repor
ted. In both cases, patients had been operated on because of meningiom
as and dural defects had been repaired with Silastic. Some years later
they developed severe graft-related haematomas and were ultimately su
ccessfully treated only by the removal of the synthetic grafts. On the
basis of this and other clinical experiences, biological dural grafts
seem to be preferable to synthetic ones.