Skull defect is a common disease. Many brain diseases, such as brain trauma, cerebral hemorrhage, etc., may produce high intracranial pressure. Usually, neurosurgeons need to perform decompressive craniectomy to save patients' lives, and some skulls have to be sacrificed, which will leave skull defects after surgery. In addition, hydrocephalus may occur after brain injury surgery, which is often encountered in clinical work of neurosurgery.

Can skull repair and shunt be done together?

For skull defects, it is generally recommended to carry out skull repair surgery in time in about three months; For hydrocephalus, the classic clinical treatment is generally cerebrospinal fluid shunt, such as ventriculoperitoneal shunt, ventriculoperitoneal shunt, ventriculoperitoneal shunt and so on. So if the patient with skull defect has hydrocephalus at the same time, can skull repair be done together with shunt surgery?

Skull defect with hydrocephalus needs to be treated according to different conditions.

For patients with skull defect and hydrocephalus, can skull repair and shunt be performed at the same time? This depends on the situation. If there is no infection in the brain and no other conditions, and the cerebrospinal fluid is up to standard and clear and transparent, skull repair and shunt surgery can be performed at the same time; If the patient is complicated with intracranial infection or the cerebrospinal fluid is not up to standard, it is necessary to control the intracranial infection first, purify the cerebrospinal fluid, and then perform shunt surgery, and then perform skull repair after the condition is stable; Another case of hydrocephalus may be related to or caused by skull defect. After skull repair, hydrocephalus can be relieved by itself without shunt. This situation also exists. All these require neurosurgeons to scientifically determine the treatment plan after comprehensive evaluation according to the specific condition.

Skull repair requires high repair materials and operation level.

It is worth mentioning that although skull repair is a routine operation in neurosurgery, there are still high requirements for skull repair materials and the operating level of operators. PEEK material is a special polymer material and an ideal skull repair material at present. Its hardness, rigidity, strength, elasticity, heat insulation, stability, radiation transmittance and shaping effect are similar to those of autologous skull. After being implanted into the human body, it has high comfort and good protection, and is favored by patients and neurosurgeons.

Diseases such as skull defect complicated with hydrocephalus can be properly solved.

At present, the team of Mu Cangshan, the chief physician of neurosurgery department of traumatic cerebrovascular disease in Aviation General Hospital of China Medical University, is widely using PEEK as a skull repair material, constantly improving the upgrading technology and optimizing the material design, innovatively introducing the concept of cosmetic plastic surgery, and comprehensively carrying out PEEK skull repair and plastic surgery, so as to achieve the organic unity of structural reset, perfect function and beautiful appearance. At the same time, the comprehensive strength of the hospital neurosurgery center is strong, and patients with skull defects complicated with other difficult intracranial diseases (such as hydrocephalus, dystonia, moyamoya disease, cerebrovascular malformation, etc.) can be properly solved together.

China Medical University Aviation General Hospital trauma neurosurgery appointment registration telephone: 0 10-58554765.