Chest wall reconstruction is a common method to repair the damaged chest wall structure and restore the normal

function of the chest wall after thoracic surgery. At present, autologous skin flaps have become an ideal material for chest wall

soft tissue reconstruction, but there is still much controversy about the choice of chest wall skeleton reconstruction materials. In

addition to autologous bone, non-degradable material is a kind of chest wall reconstruction material with many clinical applications, which has good tissue strength and stability, and has fewer complications. At the same time, with the continuous deepening

of the research on chest wall reconstruction materials, biodegradable materials have become a new hot spot in clinical application

experiments and research on the improvement of the properties of chest wall reconstruction materials. Among them, 3D printed

absorbable materials have high clinical feasibility. Based on this, the application status and progress of chest wall reconstruction

materials were reviewed in this paper.

　Chest wall reconstruction, 　Autologous bone, 　Non-degradable material, 　Biodegradable material, 　3D

printing material, 　Polyetheretherketone