Posterior vault "free-floating" bone flap: indications, technique, advantages, and drawbacks.
Gianpiero TamburriniMartina OffiLuca MassimiPaolo FrassanitoFederico BianchiPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2021)
A review of the literature shows that "free bone flap" posterior expansion cranioplasty still has a role, particularly in infants with thin and "honeycomb" structure of the bone, allowing to gain adequate intracranial volume increases and to postpone to a more adequate time surgery aimed at anterior cranial fossa expansion.