Case Report

Reconstruction of the Occipital and Parietal Congenital Defect with 3D Custom-Made Titanium Prosthesis: A Case Report with Four and a Half Years of Follow-Up and a Brief Review of Literature

Table 1

Summary of 11 included studies, reporting a total of 214 cases of skull reconstructions with custom-made CAD/CAM titanium prostheses.

Num.Author/yearPatientsGenderAgeLocationTitanium implant typeFollow-upPost op complication

11998/E. Heissler [16]1512 male/3 female21-35 yearsNot mentionedSolidMean 16.6 months1 infection, 1 convulsion upon drainage removal
21999/J.JOFFE [17]141Not mentioned6-67 yearsNot mentionedSolid6 weeks to 1 year1 failure
32009/Mario Cabraja [13]26Not mentioned35.616 (frontotemporoparietal), 4(bifrontal), 3(frontal), 2(temporal), 1(frontoparietal)SolidMedian 8.1 yearsA transient palsy of the frontal ramus of the facial nerve postoperatively just in 1 case
42010/Jules Poukens [18]1Not mentionedNot mentionedUnilateral frontotemporoparietalSolidNMNo
52011/H. Sudhoff [9]1Male48Unilateral parietal, sphenoid, frontal, orbital rim, ethmoid, maxillary, zygomatic, nasal bonesSolid1 weekNo
62011/Juan Felipe Isaza Saldarriaga [15]1Male13Unilateral frontoparietal areaSolid4 monthsNo
72014/S.A. Eolchiyan [19]4Female24Left fronto-orbital regionSolidMean 4.4 yearsNo
Male44Right parietal-temporal regionSolidMean 4.4 yearsNo
Female23Left fronto-orbital regionSolidMean 4.4 yearsNo
Female23Both side frontal regionSolidMean 4.4 yearsNo
82015/Hyung Rok Cho [10]3Female41Left parieto-occipital area extended to right parietal areaPorous6 monthsNo
Female32Right frontotemporoparietal areaPorous6 monthsNo
Female21Left parietotemporal areaPorous2 monthsNo
92018/Jae Yoon Kim [20]1Male36Unilateral forehead and glabella areaSolid6 monthsNo
102019/Seong Hwan Kim [21]2Male55Right parietotemporal areaSolid1 yearNo
Male33Right temporal areaSolidNMNo
112019/Champeaux C [22]1912 male/7 female6: right side, 9: frontal side, 4: left sideSolidMean 1.2 year31.6%: early postoperative complications, 1 lost to follow-up, 1 prosthesis removal, 63.1% no complication