Antonopoulos Dimitrios, Tsiliboti Dimitra, Skarpetas Dimitrios, Masmanidis Aris
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department, Aghios Andreas General Hospital of Patras, 74 Fanariou Street, 26226, Patras, Greece.
Head Neck. 2006 Jun;28(6):559-63. doi: 10.1002/hed.20384.
Reconstruction of enormous composite defects of the face in the presence of meningitis is a difficult problem. We present a case of a 29-year-old man with a huge, posttraumatic bone and soft tissue defect of the upper half of the left side of the face (orbit-zygoma-frontal-partial temporal bones), frontal lobe of the brain, and enucleated eye with intact facial skin.
An initial reconstruction using cement was complicated by multiple episodes of meningitis. In a multiple-stage procedure, we used a free latissimus dorsi muscle flap to re-construct the soft tissue defect and control the infection, a complete left orbit and frontal MEDPOR implant for the bone defect, and also an orbital sphere MEDPOR implant for the eyeball.
In a 2-year follow-up, no infection was observed, and the cosmetic result is satisfactory.
The combination of free flap and MEDPOR implants demonstrates an alternative method for reconstruction of complicated facial defects.
在存在脑膜炎的情况下重建巨大的面部复合缺损是一个难题。我们报告一例29岁男性病例,其左侧面部上半部分(眼眶-颧骨-额骨-部分颞骨)、脑额叶以及眼球已摘除但面部皮肤完整,存在巨大的创伤后骨和软组织缺损。
最初使用骨水泥进行重建,出现了多次脑膜炎发作的并发症。在多阶段手术中,我们使用背阔肌游离皮瓣重建软组织缺损并控制感染,使用完整的左眼眶和额部MEDPOR植入物修复骨缺损,还使用眼眶球MEDPOR植入物修复眼球。
在2年的随访中,未观察到感染,美容效果令人满意。
游离皮瓣和MEDPOR植入物的联合应用为复杂面部缺损的重建提供了一种替代方法。