2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable

Adverse-event figures are drawn from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) MAUDE database, refreshed March 2026, see our methodology.

OpenFDA device adverse-event casebook.

FDA Class II (moderate risk, special controls required), regulated under 21 CFR §882.5320 (Neurology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#681 of 1000 · 944 reports · 2005–2026

  • BOOK 944 reports
  • RANK #681 of 1000
  • DEATH 0 death-typed
  • INJ 197 injury-typed
  • MALF 742 malfunction
  • SPAN 2005–2026
  • PEAK 2025: 243
  • PHOTO Catheter Care Tray

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter Care Tray (0 report gap)

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable sits #681 of 1000 among tracked device types with 944 MAUDE reports spanning 2005–2026. Rank counts report volume, not confirmed device fault. Event_type Death / Injury / Malfunction are one code per report — not the same population as patient-outcome rows ( methodology). Read with this device → · Lead manufacturer → · Similar-volume device →

Malfunction reports run above the device-type norm

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable carries 78.6% MALFUNCTION-coded reports, 13.8pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.0% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.5 pp)
  • INJ 20.9% corpus 30.3% · below corpus mean (-9.4 pp)
  • MALF 78.6% corpus 64.8% · above corpus mean (+13.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Break is 51% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 78% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 80% of location-tagged rows .

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable in the event-volume neighbourhood

FDA MAUDE report totals among this device type and nearest nationwide peers

reports

What this shows Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable carries 944 MAUDE reports, ranked #681 of 1000.

Source FDA MAUDE via openFDA, aggregated by PlainHospital As of August 2026

Event Types

Malfunction 742 (78.6%)
Injury 197 (20.9%)
Other 4 (0.4%)
1 (0.1%)

Patient Outcomes

FDA patient-outcome codes (separate from event_type). Percentages use this chart's row total.

676 (72.2%)
Required Intervention 190 (20.3%)
Other 41 (4.4%)
Hospitalization 13 (1.4%)
R 10 (1.1%)
O 3 (0.3%)
H 2 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Break 475
Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 111
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 107
Failure to Cut 39
Device-Device Incompatibility 34
Entrapment of Device 23
Nonstandard Device 20
Material Twisted/Bent 17
Insufficient Device Problem Information 15
Fracture 13
Crack 12
Device Contaminated During Manufacture or Shipping 12
Difficult to Advance 10
Migration 10
Fitting Problem 8
Material Fragmentation 7
Material Deformation 6
Peeled/Delaminated 6
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 5
Device Slipped 5

Yearly Trend

05
2005: 1
08
2008: 3
09
2009: 2
10
2010: 7
11
2011: 1
12
2012: 5
13
2013: 7
14
2014: 11
15
2015: 18
16
2016: 18
17
2017: 47
18
2018: 41
19
2019: 14
20
2020: 25
21
2021: 41
22
2022: 53
23
2023: 72
24
2024: 149
25
2025: 243
26
2026: 186

Reports rose to 243 in 2025, up from an average of 111 in the two years before - a recent-year increase, not a lifetime pattern.

Related Entities for Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable

Event Locations

754 (79.9%)
I 189 (20.0%)
OTHER 1 (0.1%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs SYNTHES USA →

Nationwide devices with a comparable report-volume footprint

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable carries zero death-typed MAUDE reports, so the peer set below compares report volume only; both axes are floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhood stays in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (944 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (0 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable are informational only and are not clinical advice. Report codes do not prove device causation. Consult a qualified clinician before acting on this data.

Every figure on PlainHospital is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Event-type mix on this page is computed from FDA MAUDE codes for Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Alterable; corpus means use device types with ≥100 reports. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.