Tissue expansion for challenging DBS hardware erosions in patients with Parkinson's disease

• Nikhil Thakur, MD,
• Michael Eibach, MD,
• Shahram Ghanaati, MD, DMD, PhD,
• Lutz Weise, MD, PhD,
• Volker Seifert, MD, PhD,
• Gerhard Marquardt, MD, PhD,
• Johanna Quick-Weller, MD, PhD

Affiliations

Nikhil Thakur, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; Corresponding author. Department of Neurosurgery, Center for Neurology and Neurosurgery, JW Goethe University Hospital, Schleusenweg 2-16, 60528, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Michael Eibach, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Shahram Ghanaati, MD, DMD, PhD

Department of Oral- Cranio- Maxillofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Lutz Weise, MD, PhD

Division of Neurosurgery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Volker Seifert, MD, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Gerhard Marquardt, MD, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany

Johanna Quick-Weller, MD, PhD

Department of Neurosurgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany