Results
Throughout the patient's hospital stay, the patient recovered from her left-sided weakness and started responding appropriately to questions. Furthermore, with continued physical rehabilitation, she regained full mobility. As the patient recurred a yeast infection of her remaining scalp flap, synthetic cranioplasty was deferred and protection was provided by a helmet. At a 2 month follow-up, she remained free of infection. Omental free flap with dermal and split-thickness skin grafts provided durable long-term soft tissue coverage for a total craniectomy defect caused by osteomyelitis of the skull in an adult.
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