[Medical rehabilitation medical-disability expertise of patients with post-traumatic bone defect of the skull].

The authors analyzed the results of treating 171 patients with sequelae of brain trauma and defects in the bones of the cranial fornix. On the basis of repeated examinations disturbances of brain functions were detected in 94 patients. In the remaining cases the only reason for invalidity was the cranial bone defect. For purposes of cranioplasty different methods were used. The results of surgical treatment permit to claim that the operation of choice in closing the bone defect is cranioplasty by homobones. In alloplasty of the cranial bone defect and all the more so in homobone plasty, it is expedient to reconsider the medico-labour examination in this category of patients.