Areas of Expertise

Liu Xiao's expertise: cranial injury surgery, cranioplasty and reconstructive surgery, and minimally invasive vascular decompression surgery for peripheral nerves. He has extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently occurring neurosurgical diseases, such as cranial trauma surgery, cranioplasty and reconstructive surgery, and brain tumors. He is most skilled in cranioplasty and reconstructive surgery for brain trauma, and related clinical experience has been published in authoritative Chinese neurosurgery journals. He also has rich experience in the diagnosis and treatment of complex neurosurgical diseases, such as skull base tumors and brainstem tumors.

Biography

Name: Liu Xiao
Title: Attending Physician, Ph.D.
Position: Deputy Director of the Brain Trauma Center, Department of Neurosurgery
Professional expertise of Liu Xiao: cranial bone injury surgery, cranioplasty and reconstructive surgery, and minimally invasive microvascular decompression surgery for peripheral nerves. He has accumulated extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of various common and frequently occurring neurosurgical diseases, such as cranial trauma surgery, cranioplasty and reconstructive surgery, brain tumors, etc. He is most proficient in brain trauma diseases—cranioplasty and reconstructive surgery. His relevant clinical experience has been published in authoritative Chinese neurosurgery journals. In addition, he has extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult and complicated neurosurgical diseases, such as skull base tumors and brainstem tumors.
Academic achievements: Liu Xiao, male, Attending Physician, Ph.D., graduated from Nantong Medical College in 1998 and has been engaged in neurosurgery for more than 20 years. He serves as Deputy Director of the Brain Trauma Center of Civil Aviation General Hospital and concurrently as a member of the Trauma Rehabilitation Committee of the Chinese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine. He has received multiple awards, including the First Prize for Scientific and Technological Achievements from the Ministry of Health and the Beijing Science and Technology Progress Award.

Liu Xiao of Civil Aviation General Hospital Explains PEEK Material for Skull Repair
　　In current living conditions, there are many causes of skull defects. Most patients wish to undergo skull repair, but when choosing repair materials, they do not know which material is better. Generally speaking, the timing of repair surgery varies with different conditions of skull defects and mainly falls into two situations. First, for defects caused by open comminuted skull fractures with relatively clean wounds, one-stage repair can be performed; second, for skull defects caused by decompressive craniectomy due to intracranial hypertension after closed craniocerebral injury, early cranioplasty should be performed 2–3 months after surgery.
　　For cranioplasty, the choice of material is very important. For example, titanium mesh, commonly used in clinical practice, is not ideal because it has various problems such as rejection, poor thermal insulation, complications, and interference with CT and MRI examinations. At present, the polyetheretherketone (PEEK) material used by our team is a very advanced skull repair material that can well overcome the above problems and achieve ideal repair outcomes.

　　Over the long-term development of cranioplasty, repair materials have undergone several innovations and upgrades. The new repair material currently used in clinical practice, polyetheretherketone—commonly referred to as PEEK material—is a very advanced and ideal material. PEEK is a special high-performance polymer material whose properties are very close to those of autologous human skull bone. It has excellent histocompatibility, high comfort after implantation, and strong protective performance. In addition, it can be perfectly shaped through three-dimensional reconstruction, and has gradually become a new trend in cranioplasty materials.

　　After cranioplasty, patients should pay attention to nutrition and rest, avoid spicy and irritating foods in the short term, avoid excessive fatigue, and avoid hair dyeing and perming. They should engage in moderate exercise regularly. Generally, normal life and work can be resumed one to two months after surgery.

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