← All decks
Maxillofacial Surgery
Skull Base and Cranial Vault Fractures (AO Based)
Built from AO Surgery Reference: CMF Trauma, Pediatric Trauma and Reconstruction (AO Foundation)
What’s inside
2 sections · 112 slides
Overview
- Introduction
- Skull base and cranial vault injuries
- Anatomy
- Bones of the cranial vault
- Bones of the cranial vault
- Fossae of the skull base
- Fossae of the skull base
- Cranial nerves and skull base foramina
- Cranial nerves and skull base foramina
- Frontal sinus anatomy and drainage
- Frontal sinus anatomy and drainage
- Temporal bone anatomy
- Temporal bone anatomy
- Clinical and radiographic assessment
- Cranial vault: mechanism and presentation
- Cranial vault: mechanism and presentation
- Skull base fractures: clinical signs
- Skull base fractures: clinical signs
- Traumatic CSF leak
- Traumatic CSF leak
- Frontal sinus evaluation and CT planes
- Frontal sinus evaluation and CT planes
- Imaging of vault and skull base injuries
- Imaging of vault and skull base injuries
- Classification
- Descriptive fracture classification
- Descriptive fracture classification
- Fracture types as drawn by AO
- Fracture types as drawn by AO (cont.)
- Frontal sinus fracture patterns
- Frontal sinus fracture patterns
- Temporal bone fracture classification
- Temporal bone fracture classification
- Cranial vault fractures
- Cranial vault: treatment options
- Cranial vault: treatment options
- Elevation of a depressed vault fracture
- Elevation of a depressed vault fracture
- Dural repair and bone flap fixation
- Dural repair and bone flap fixation
- Frontal sinus fractures
- Anterior table: treatment options
- Anterior table: treatment options
- Posterior table: treatment options
- Posterior table: treatment options
- Frontal recess: treatment options
- Frontal sinus decision logic
- Frontal sinus decision logic
- ORIF of the anterior table
- ORIF of the anterior table
- Autologous materials for obliteration
- Autologous materials for obliteration
- Methods to define the sinus margin
- Methods to define the sinus margin
- Frontal sinus obliteration: key steps
- Frontal sinus obliteration: key steps
- Cranialization: key steps
- Cranialization: key steps
- Endoscopic options for the frontal sinus
- Endoscopic options for the frontal sinus
- Skull base fractures
- Anterior skull base: treatment options
- Anterior skull base: treatment options
- Extradural versus intradural repair
- Extradural versus intradural repair
- Central skull base: treatment options
- Central skull base: treatment options
- Endoscopic repair of CSF rhinorrhea
- Lateral skull base: treatment options
- Lateral skull base: treatment options
- Extradural middle fossa repair
- Extradural middle fossa repair
- Posterior skull base fractures
- Posterior skull base fractures
- Posterior fossa mass lesions
- Posterior fossa mass lesions
- Temporal bone fractures
- Temporal bone: clinical presentation
- Temporal bone: clinical presentation
- Temporal bone: treatment options
- Temporal bone: treatment options
- Facial nerve palsy after temporal fracture
- Facial nerve palsy after temporal fracture
- CSF otorrhea and hearing loss
- CSF otorrhea and hearing loss
- Surgical approaches
- Approaches: open routes
- Approaches: open routes
- Coronal approach: key steps
- Coronal approach: key steps
- Pericranial flap
- Pericranial flap
- Calvarial bone graft harvest
- Calvarial bone graft harvest
Aftercare and complications
- Aftercare after open vault and base repair
- Aftercare after frontal sinus repair
- Infections and persistent CSF leak
- Infections and persistent CSF leak
- Complications by region
- Complications by region
- Late sequelae: mucocele and pyocele
- Cranioplasty materials
- Cranioplasty materials
- Take-home messages
- References (1 of 6)
- References (2 of 6)
- References (3 of 6)
- References (4 of 6)
- References (5 of 6)
- References (6 of 6)
- Join our WhatsApp groups