• Journal of neurosurgery · Oct 2015

    Interdigitated craniotomy: a simple technique to fix a bone flap with only a single plate.

    • Noboru Takahashi, Kazunori Fujiwara, Keiichi Saito, and Teiji Tominaga.
    • Department of Neurosurgery, Iwate Prefectural Iwai Hospital, Ichinoseki; and.
    • J. Neurosurg. 2015 Oct 1;123(4):1055-8.

    AbstractIn pterional craniotomy, fixation plates cause artifacts on postoperative radiological images; furthermore, they often disfigure the scalp in hairless areas. The authors describe a simple technique to fix a cranial bone flap with only a single plate underneath the temporalis muscle in an area with hair, rather than using a plate in a hairless area. The key to this technique is to cut the anterior site of the bone flap at alternate angles on the cut surface. Interdigitation between the bone flap and skull enables single-plate fixation in the area with hair, which reduces artifacts on postoperative radiological images and provides excellent postoperative cosmetic results.

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