title: [Skull base reconstruction and rehabilitation].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To review our experience with skull base reconstruction and rehabilitation.
  
  
  METHODS
  The clinical data of 30 patients with skull base reconstruction from 200 patients performed skull base surgery were retrospectively reviewed. Bone defect of skull base were repaired in 20 patients and dura defect in 6 patients and soft tissue defect in infratemporal fossa in 8 patients.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Postoperatively there were transient cerebrospinal leakage in 3 patients, and non-symptom intracranial pneumatosis in 3 patients, and epidural hematoma in 1 patient, and meningitis in 1 patients.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Immediate reconstruction of skull base with suitable material and surgical technique can prevente complications such as postoperative infection and cerebrospinal leakage brain hernation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery,Xuanwu Hospital of Capital University of Medical Science, Beijing, 100053, China.
authors.forename: Haisheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Qiuhang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Zhanquan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002559:Cerebrospinal Fluid Rhinorrhea / Q000517:prevention & control; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation; D008297:Male; D008588:Meningocele / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010521:Periosteum / Q000637:transplantation; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D019291:Skull Base / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019292:Skull Base Neoplasms / Q000534:rehabilitation / Q000601:surgery*; D013524:Surgical Flaps; D014025:Titanium / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D014025:Titanium