2026 data FDA MAUDE openFDA FDA Class II

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Non-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 §882.5330 (Neurology panel).

FDA MAUDE casebook

openFDA event book Plate LIGHT-BOOK · MAUDE

#719 of 1000 · 824 reports · 1997–2026

  • BOOK 824 reports
  • RANK #719 of 1000
  • DEATH 2 death-typed
  • INJ 555 injury-typed
  • MALF 231 malfunction
  • SPAN 1997–2026
  • PEAK 2017: 74
  • PHOTO Catheter

Nearest event-volume peer: Catheter, Hemodialysis, Triple Lumen, Non-Implanted (1 report gap)

Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Non-Alterable sits #719 of 1000 among tracked device types with 824 MAUDE reports spanning 1997–2026. 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 →

Injury-coded reports run above the device-type norm

Plate carries 67.4% INJURY-coded reports, 37.1pp above the 1,000-device-type mean, the widest gap of its three event codes. Codes are report labels, not adjudicated causation.

  • DEATH 0.2% corpus 1.5% · below corpus mean (-1.3 pp)
  • INJ 67.4% corpus 30.3% · above corpus mean (+37.1 pp)
  • MALF 28.0% corpus 64.8% · below corpus mean (-36.8 pp)

Lead product-problem code Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem is 37% of coded problems · Lead manufacturer SYNTHES GMBH accounts for 30% of manufacturer-tagged reports · Top event location is 53% of location-tagged rows .

Plate in the event-volume neighbourhood

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

reports

What this shows Plate, Cranioplasty, Preformed, Non-Alterable carries 824 MAUDE reports, ranked #719 of 1000.

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

Event Types

Injury 555 (67.4%)
Malfunction 231 (28.0%)
23 (2.8%)
Other 13 (1.6%)
Death 2 (0.2%)

Patient Outcomes

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

Required Intervention 408 (47.3%)
228 (26.5%)
Other 130 (15.1%)
Hospitalization 45 (5.2%)
R 25 (2.9%)
O 9 (1.0%)
Life Threatening 8 (0.9%)
H 4 (0.5%)
L 2 (0.2%)
Death 2 (0.2%)
Disability 1 (0.1%)

Top Product Problems

Adverse Event Without Identified Device or Use Problem 288
Insufficient Device Problem Information 97
Defective Device 67
Inadequacy of Device Shape and/or Size 49
Break 41
Fitting Problem 39
Explanted 35
Device Operates Differently Than Expected 31
Appropriate Device Problem Term/Code Not Available 18
Unintended Movement 17
Loose 14
Patient-Device Incompatibility 12
Fracture 10
Replace 10
Loose or Intermittent Connection 9
Detachment Of Device Component 8
Material Separation 8
Migration or Expulsion of Device 7
Defective Component 6
Failure To Adhere Or Bond 6

Yearly Trend

97
1997: 2
01
2001: 11
02
2002: 17
03
2003: 1
04
2004: 1
05
2005: 5
06
2006: 12
07
2007: 3
08
2008: 17
09
2009: 17
10
2010: 23
11
2011: 20
12
2012: 29
13
2013: 57
14
2014: 60
15
2015: 47
16
2016: 35
17
2017: 74
18
2018: 56
19
2019: 54
20
2020: 63
21
2021: 63
22
2022: 57
23
2023: 32
24
2024: 35
25
2025: 24
26
2026: 9

Reports in 2025 (24) held close to the prior two-year average of 34.

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Event Locations

435 (52.8%)
I 326 (39.6%)
HOSPITAL 58 (7.0%)
NO INFORMATION 4 (0.5%)
INVALID DATA 1 (0.1%)

Compare SYNTHES GMBH vs SYNTHES BRANDYWINE →

Nationwide devices with a comparable volume-and-death footprint

Two openFDA-derived peer sets for Plate: nearest by total report volume and nearest by death-typed count, each floored at ≥100 reports so the neighborhoods stay in the advertised mass.

Similar report volume

Nearest other device types by FDA MAUDE report count (824 here).

Similar death-typed counts

Nearest other device types by death-typed report count (2 here), distinct from the volume row.

Disclaimer: MAUDE figures for Plate 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; 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.