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The patient's memory can be very limited after a traumatic injury such as Lilley's. He had very little memory of anything from the time of his injury, until he had his cranioplasty. Fortunately enough for Lilley, his memories can back quite rapidly and very easily after the surgery. For many patients, they struggle to remember people, places, and events after suffering this type of injury.

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A cranioplasty is the name of a surgical procedure which corrects and bone deformity in the skull after injury or a previous injury. Most cranioplasties involve pulling back the scalp and restoring the shape of the skull with the original piece of skull or a custom contoured graft. These grafts can be made of titanium, acrylic, or synthetic bone substitute.

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After Scott Lilley's surgery to treat his pseudoaneurysm, he had to have help from speak and physical therapists to learn how to talk, walk, and eat. In general, he had to learn all of his motor skills again, from the ground up.

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The Physical Challenges:

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The Injury:

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A pseudoaneurysm occurs when an artery or blood vessel is dilated after an injury. It causes blood to leak and pool outside the artery's walls. This pooling of blood inside the cranium can cause swelling inside the skull, which would build up pressure and cause death. Lilley had to have so much of his skull removed in order to relieve this pressure.

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REFERENCES:

http://www.minot.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123051863

http://www.traumaticbraininjuryatoz.org/Personal-Journeys/Personal-Journeys/Scott-Lilley

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cardiac-catheterization/expert-answers/pseudoaneurysm/faq-20058420

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/healthlibrary/test_procedures/neurological/cranioplasty_22,Cranioplasty/

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Staff Sgt Scott Lilley

Lilley was an Airman of the 5th Security Forces Squadron, and he was on tour in Iraq. On April 15, 2007, Lilley's squadron was attacked by insurgents. The vehicle they were in was hit by an improvised explosive device. A piece of shrapnel got inside the vehicle and hit the left side of Lilley's head; some fragments still remain lodged in his brain. He suffered from a pseudoaneurysm, and it had to be treated immediately. He underwent surgeries, resulting in about a quarter of his skull being removed. His parents, Frank and Jolene Lilley, were told he may not be able to speak or use the right side of his body again. However, he began therapy after his surgery. Later, he also underwent a cranioplasty to replace the amount of skull which had been missing.

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