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Table 1: Detailed summary of included patient and surgery-specific factors
PEEK cranioplasty
Patient characteristics Gender
Male
Female
Age (years) Comorbidities
Diabetes
Cardiovascular disease Obesity
Preoperative radiotherapy
Smoking
Initial diagnosis
Trauma Stroke Infection Tumor
Defect site
Unilateral convexity Bilateral convexity Frontal
Time to PEEK cranioplasty
Timing of cranioplasty Immediate cranioplasty Delayed cranioplasty
Previous cranioplasty
With autologous bone graft Without autologous bone graft
Number of previous surgeries
Surgery-specific characteristics
Defect size (cm2)
Shaving
Additional incision
Suspension of temporal muscle Drain
Operation time (min)
1.9 ± 1.1
106.3 ± 46.1
126.0 ± 60.4
N of complications (%)
7 (30) 4 (27)
0 (0) 4 (40) 0 (0) 0 (0) 4 (40)
4 (31) 6 (40) 0 (0) 1 (13)
9 (28) 1 (50) 1 (25)
2 (13) 9 (36)
5 (23) 6 (33)
5 (20) 2 (40) 6 (30) 8 (36)
N (%)
38 patients
23 (61) 15 (40)
2 (5) 10 (26) 7 (18) 0 (0) 10 (26)
13 (34) 15 (39) 2 (5) 8 (21)
32 (84) 2 (5) 4 (11)
40 implants
15 (38) 25 (63)
22 (55) 18 (45)
40 implants
25 (63) 5 (13) 20 (50) 22 (55)
Mean (± SD)
43.2 ± 18.1
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