Abstract:

BACKGROUND: Dural repair materials in the application of present research are mainly including autologous tissue repair material, allograft material, heterogeneous biological materials and synthetic materials.
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the property and application of various repair materials in the repair of dural defects, and to find appropriate dural repair materials.
METHODS: Taking “dural, material” in Chinese as search terms, the articles related to dural defect repair materials research and a variety of materials in the clinical application of dural defect repair from CNKI database (2000-01/2010-12) were retrieved.
RESULTS AND CONCLUSION: At present autologous tissue, allograft materials, heterogeneous biological materials and synthetic materials and other dural repair materials respectively exist sources of difficulty, easy adhesion, difficult to preserve, not easily sterilized or poor biocompatibility disadvantages. Autologous tissue repair material was still the preferred material under usable circumstances, heterogeneous biological materials because of its good biocompatibility and physical and chemical properties become the most widely dural repair material in clinical application. Although heterogeneous biological materials is currently extensive use of dural repair material in clinic, because of respective inevitable shortcomings of them, dural repair material still needs further development.