About the Authors

Felice Esposito

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

fesposito@unime.it

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy

Filippo Flavio Angileri

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy

Peter Kruse

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Independent medical advisor, Cervignano del Friuli, Italy

Luigi Maria Cavallo

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences and Odontostomatological and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

Domenico Solari

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences and Odontostomatological and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

Vincenzo Esposito

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Roma Sapienza, Rome, Italy

Francesco Tomasello

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morpho-Functional Imaging, Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Messina, Messina, Italy

Paolo Cappabianca

Contributed equally to this work with: Felice Esposito, Filippo Flavio Angileri, Peter Kruse, Luigi Maria Cavallo, Domenico Solari, Vincenzo Esposito, Francesco Tomasello, Paolo Cappabianca

Affiliation Department of Neurosciences and Odontostomatological and Reproductive Sciences, Division of Neurosurgery, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

Competing Interests

Dr. Felice Esposito received an unrestricted research grant from Baxter Italy and has given some didactic presentations on Dural Sealing methods. He has no other conflicts of interest. Dr. Paolo Cappabianca received an unrestricted research grant from Baxter Italy and has given some didactic presentations on Dural Sealing methods. He has no other conflicts of interest. Dr. Peter Kruse was paid for this structured literature review as an independent clinical consultant. He has no other conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS One policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FE PK PC. Performed the experiments: FE PK. Analyzed the data: FE. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FE PK. Wrote the paper: FE PK. Drafted the manuscript: FE PK. Performed the data analysis: FE FFA PK LMC DS. Corrected the proofs: FE FFA PK LMC DS VE FT PC. Approved the final form of the manuscript: FE FFA PK LMC DS VE FT PC.