Fig. 2

A 29-year-old male patient that presented with a left frontoparietal CDF after a motor vehicle accident (a), that was treated with a craniotomy and primary immediate titanium mesh cranioplasty (b). Two months later the patient complained of an ongoing headache, where a brain MRI revealed a brain abscess (c). Debridement and hardware removal was done (d) followed by 6 weeks of antibiotics. One year later, another titanium mesh cranioplasty was done after the infection subsided (e–f)