Table 3.

Reoperation and infection rate of two different types of dural substitutes in Chiari malformation decompressive surgery

Reference	Reoperation			Aseptic meningitis			Wound infection
	Group 1	Group 2	All	Group 1	Group 2	All	Group 1	Group 2	All
Attenello et al., 2009[10]	4/40 (10%)	0/27	4/67 (6%)	1/40 (3%)	1/27 (4%)	2/67 (3%)	0/40	0/27	0/67
Danish et al., 2006[11]	4/56 (7%)	2/45 (4%)	6/101 (6%)	‐	‐	‐	2/56 (4%)	1/45 (2%)	3/101 (3%)
Vanaclocha and Saiz-Sapena, 1997[1]	‐	‐	‐	0/13	2/13 (15%)	2/26 (8%)	‐	‐	‐
	Pericranium	Nonautologus grafts		Pericranium	Nonautologus grafts		Pericranium	Nonautologus grafts
Total	4/40 (10%)	6/128 (5%)		1/53 (2%)	3/40 (8%)		0/40	3/128 (2%)