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Since Dandy first described the successful repair of the skull base in 1926 and then with the era of endoscopic skull base surgery, many operative techniques have been adopted to reach a successful watertight closure of skull base defects. Those techniques have employed a wide range of closure materials, including simple autografts, allografts, xenografts, synthetic materials, local flaps, or even free flaps.
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Alsuliman, Y.A., Tewfik, M.A., Wormald, PJ. (2022). Free Autologous Grafts. In: AlQahtani, A.A., Castelnuovo, P., Casiano, R., Carrau, R.L. (eds) CSF Rhinorrhea. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94781-1_17
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