The Efficacy of Continuous Negative Pressure and Irrigation Treatment Inside the Wound by a Closed System in Reconstruction of All Layers of the Cranium Accompanying Infection and Cerebrospinal Fluid Leakage

J Craniofac Surg. 2016 Jan;27(1):e10-3. doi: 10.1097/SCS.0000000000002278.

Abstract

There have been many reports to date with respect to treatments on reconstruction of the cranium without accompanying infections following trauma and tumor resection. The morality is, however, high in patients observed with generation of cranial bone defect of all layers accompanying infection and cerebrospinal fluid leakage, and moreover, there are barely any reports on such cases because of the reconstruction thereof being very difficult. In this study, the authors were able to cure such 2 cases by carrying out continuous negative pressure and irrigation treatment inside the wound by a closed system following transplant of free latissimus dorsi muscle flap. This method is believed to be very effective for cranial bone defect of all layers accompanying infection and cerebrospinal fluid leakage, in which treatment was determined to be very difficult.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak / therapy*
  • Craniotomy / methods*
  • Debridement / methods
  • Female
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Middle Aged
  • Muscle, Skeletal / transplantation*
  • Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy / instrumentation
  • Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy / methods*
  • Neurosurgical Procedures / methods
  • Plastic Surgery Procedures / methods*
  • Skin Transplantation / methods
  • Subarachnoid Hemorrhage / surgery
  • Suction / instrumentation
  • Suction / methods
  • Surgical Wound Infection / therapy*
  • Temporal Bone / surgery
  • Therapeutic Irrigation / instrumentation
  • Therapeutic Irrigation / methods*
  • Treatment Outcome