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The History of Military Cranioplasty Neurosurg Focus 36 (4):E18, 2014 ©AANS, 2014 The history of military cranioplasty CHRISTOPHER M. BONFIELD, M.D.,1 ANAND R. KUmaR, M.D.,2 AND PETER C. GERSZTEN, M.D., M.P.H.1 1Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; and 2Department of Plastic Surgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland There is evidence that the neurosurgical procedure of cranioplasty is as ancient as its better-known counterpart, trephination. With origins in pre-Incan Peru, cranioplasty remains an important reconstructive procedure for modern craniofacial surgery teams to master. Solutions to the often challenging problem of repairing skull defects continue to evolve to improve patient outcomes. Throughout recorded history, advances in cranioplasty have paralleled major military conflicts due to survivorship after trephination or decompressive craniectomy. Primitive skull coverings used in Peru were later replaced during the Middle Ages by grafts obtained in animals and humans. Improved survivor- ship secondary to advances in anesthesia and battlefield medicine during the Crimean War and the American Civil War allowed the use of tantalum and acrylic cranioplasty to evolve during World Wars I and II. In the modern era of the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, greater survivorship after cranial injury due to improvements in protective armor, medical evacuation, and early “far-forward” neurosurgical treatment have occurred. Consequently, the last decade has seen great advancement in cranial defect reconstruction, including custom-fabricated alloplast implants and the emergence of regenerative cranial treatments such as distraction osteogenesis, protected bone regeneration, and free tissue transfers. Comprehensive rehabilitation after neurotrauma has emerged as the new standard of care. (http://thejns.org/doi/abs/10.3171/2014.1.FOCUS13504) KEY WORDS • cranioplasty • cranial defect • decompressive craniectomy • warfare-related trauma LTHOUGH less well described and discussed than its Ancient History complementary ancient neurosurgical procedure of trephination, reconstructive cranioplasty is no The earliest evidence of trephination documents pre- Incan surgeons in the area of the modern state of Peru Aless important and equally intriguing. Throughout record- 25,26 ed history, numerous and diverse techniques have been performing the procedure as early as 3000 BCE. Al- developed to repair acquired defects of the human skull. though the exact indications and reasons for the procedure New techniques and novel materials are continually be- remain largely unknown, it has been estimated that 28% to 46% were undertaken for traumatic injuries, mainly ing developed or improved to treat this complex problem 9,17,19 properly. There is evidence of reconstructive cranioplasty as a result of battle. Lending evidence to a military treatments dating from the pre-Incan period in Peru, and connection, trephined skulls have been discovered more frequently in burial grounds of Incan fortresses than in later in the Middle East and Europe during the 16th–17th 13 centuries. During the modern period, advances have par- those of coastal communities. Horrax postulated that alleled the World Wars and, most recently, the conflicts the abundance of skull injuries in males suggested that in Iraq and Afghanistan. The nearly unbroken string of trephination was performed in male soldiers injured in hand-to-hand combat. According to Lastres and Cabie- trauma, conflict, and war has been the primary source of 17 innovation and advancements in this field of neurosur- ses, Penfield reported that trephination was used in an gery in the past, and remains so today. For this reason, attempt to evacuate subdural hematomas, whereas Hors- 14 this study explores the history of cranioplasty—follow- ley believed that the procedure was performed to elevate ing and connecting the ancient neurosurgical procedure and remove depressed skull fractures. to conflict and war, while highlighting major advances There are far fewer, albeit no less convincing, more during each period of conflict. contemporary examples of cranioplasty in ancient Peru. Cushing8 described skulls that were discovered with gold or silver plates covering the cranial defect, but he ques- Abbreviations used in this paper: WWI, WWII = World War I tioned the utility of such material. Other materials, such and II. as coca, yerba mate, gourd, shells, coconut, calabash, and Neurosurg Focus / Volume 36 / April 2014 1 Unauthenticated | Downloaded 10/01/21 12:39 PM UTC C. M. Bonfield, A. R. Kumar, and P. C. Gerszten plants, were implanted, but all proved to be ineffective man resulting in a cranial defect. The injury was repaired as well.2,6,9 Although the procedure may not have been by a graft from a dog cranium, and allegedly the patient entirely beneficial in all cases, cranioplasty appears to was threatened with excommunication from the church have its oldest evidence of practice in Peru. The link to due to the animal tissue implanted in the man’s head.12 military injuries also shares its origin here. During the more classical era of history in Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Asia, little advancement was made in Modern War Era the area of cranioplasty. Trephination was reported, and The next era of cranioplasty’s evolution was pushed by cranial injuries in battle were described. However, the further advances in battlefield medicine. In Boston, Mas- procedure appeared to fall out of favor, with importance sachusetts, on October 16, 1846, Dr. John Collins War- being placed on application of the dressing over an open ren performed the first surgery with the assistance of Dr. cranial wound rather than the restoration of a rigid cranial William Morton’s ether inhalation, and the beginning of vault.11,26 Hippocrates described the practice of dressing modern general anesthesia was celebrated. The advent of the wounds with lint, with subsequent physicians and sur- general anesthesia allowed for the creation of the modern geons modifying his recommendations. military field hospitals, which made their first appearance in the Crimean War (1853–1886) and the American Civil 4 16th–17th Centuries War (1861–1865). As battlefield treatment improved, so did the number of soldiers who sustained injuries and sur- For the many centuries following the classical time pe- vived. More survivors from the battlefield translated into riod, there is little evidence of the practice of reconstructive more opportunities and need for cranioplasty procedures. cranioplasty. However, in the early 16th century, the proce- However, these field hospitals were in their infancy dur- dure made its return in both the Middle East and in Europe. ing these conflicts.33 McLeod20 reported a 73.7% mortal- The first more modern recorded description of cranioplas- ity rate in 898 patients who suffered from head injury in ty was discovered in the surgery textbook Alaim-I Cerra- the Crimean War. Similarly, the rate of mortality after hin (Wonders of Surgeons), as detailed in Aciduman and head wounds sustained during the Civil War was 71.1%.29 Belen.1 Written in 1505 by Ibrahim bin Abdullah, the text As Civil War surgeon Dr. Chisolm states so simply, “All outlines the repair of skull defects with xenografts. Living wounds to the head are more or less serious.”5 in a time of war in the Ottoman era, Ibrahim practiced as a Trench warfare with hand-thrown grenades, which military surgeon and became familiar with cranial wounds were extensively used in World War I (WWI), accounted and their treatment. He guides other physicians: “If you for many head injuries and fragment injuries. However, encounter a cranial bone fracture presented either with a as antiseptic and sterile techniques in surgery improved, wide defect or with multiple smashed bones so that when mortality from such conflicts continued to decrease. The bony parts are removed, a wide hole will occur, you are mortality rate resulting from head wounds in WWI de- obliged to repair this defect by the following procedure; creased to 35% after Cushing7 introduced the techniques find a youngster of goat and slaughter it. If a goat is not of surgical debridement and primary closure of open obtainable you may use Karabash [Kangal dog].” These wounds. Along with the widespread adoption of these animals were readily obtainable for use by a military sur- techniques, military surgeons reverted back to fashioning geon, because goats and Kangal dogs were used for food gold and silver plates for cranial defect repair.22 and protection by the Ottoman troops. Also, the goats were By the time of World War II (WWII), antibiotic use raised as livestock in the countryside, with the dogs shep- and further evolution of surgical treatments decreased herding them. Marching troops would be in close proxim- the mortality rate to approximately 14%.30 Unlike during ity to these animals, and the surgeon could have immediate WWI, gold and silver were not used as cranioplasty mate- access to this cranioplasty material if needed. rial during WWII.32 Instead, other newer materials such Around this same time, the Persian physician Baha as tantalum and acrylic resins were introduced to repair al-Dowleh Razi wrote his book, the Khulasat al-Tajarib the high number of cranial defects left by this large-scale (Summary of Experiences). In this work he describes “a war. Fulcher10 first described the use of tantalum in 1943.23 very skillful surgeon who used to cut damaged bones It could be molded easily and did not elicit an inflamma- from the skull and cut the skull of a dog the same shape tory reaction in the surrounding tissues. However, the ele- and place it on the damaged part” (see Shoja et al.).27 This ment was relatively expensive, and it led to the develop- surgeon has never been definitely identified; however, ment of headaches in very hot and cold temperatures due there is evidence that he was referring to Ibrahim. to its heat and cold conduction properties. Furthermore, it In Europe, Fallopius was also developing a familiari- was radiopaque and made subsequent diagnostic imaging ty with cranioplasty.
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