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Borba, Luis A. B. et al.: 2021 Microsurgical and Endoscopic Approaches to the Skull Base DOI: 10.1055/b-0041-182768
Section VIII Approaches to the Posterior Incisural Space

47 Supracerebellar Infratentorial Approach: Endoscopic Perspective

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Editors: Borba, Luis A. B.; de Oliveira, Jean G.

Authors: Ahmed, A. Karim; Almeida, Joao Paulo; Alzhrani, Gmaan A.; Aragón-Arreola, Jorge F.; Barbero, Juan Manuel Revuelta; Berumen, Enrique Lopez; Borghei-Ravazi, Hamid; Braga, Fernando Menezes; Burhan, Hira; Cabral, Gustavo Augusto Porto Sereno; Caffaratti, Guido; Campero, Alvaro; Cândido, Duarte N. C.; Carrau, Ricardo L.; Cassidy, Matthew; Castellanos, Alberto Manuel Ángeles; Catapano, Joshua S.; Ceccato, Guilherme Henrique Weiler; Centeno, Tomás Ries; Cerezo, Eugenio; Chakravarthi, Srikant; Chaudhary, Pramod; Cherian, Iype; Cohen, Alan R.; Colli, Benedicto Oscar; Couldwell, William T.; Dodson, Vincent; Eguiluz-Meléndez, Aldo G.; Elizalde, Ramiro López; Eloy, Jean Anderson; Felicio, Thiago Albonette; Felix, Vinod; Ferrarez, Carlos Eduardo Prata Fernandes; Ferreira, Mauro A. Tostes; Fernandez-Miranda, Juan C.; Filho, Miguel Giudicissi; Froelich, Sébastien; García, Martín Granados; Gardner, Paul A.; Gentili, Fred; Giacomelli, Richard; Goel, Atul; Gómez-Amador, Juan Luis; Gozal, Yair M.; Gondim, Guilherme Gozzoli Podolsky; Gusmão, Sebastião Nataniel Silva; Hanakita, Shunya; Hardesty, D. A.; Herrera, Daniel Londoño; Hsueh, Wayne D.; Joshi, Krishna C.; Jradi, Ahmed Al; Kadri, Paulo A. S.; Kafle, Prakash; Kalb, Samuel; Kalkmann, Gabriela F.; Kanaan, Imad N.; Karekezi, Claire; Kassam, Amin; Kovalev, Aleksandr Yurievich; Kshettry, Varun R.; Labidi, Moujahed; Landeiro, José Alberto; Lang, Michael J.; Lawton, Michael T.; Lem-Carrillo, Mónica; Liu, James K.; Longo-Calderón, Gabriel Mauricio; Lopez, Juan; Lovato, Renan M.; Majmundar, Neil; Marian-Magaña, Ricardo; Maluf, Felipe Bicalho; Martínez-Manrique, José de Jesús; Martins, Carolina; Martins, Warley; Markin, Egor S.; Méndez, Humberto Reyna; Monroy-Sosa, Alejandro; Mora, José Alfredo Espinosa; Mukherjee, Debraj; Munakomi, Sunil; Mura, Jorge; Nakaji, Peter; Narendrakumar, Veerasigamani; Nathal, Edgar; Nunes, Cristian Ferrareze; Oliveira, Marcelo Magaldi; Ortega-Porcayo, Luis Alberto; Otto, Bradley A.; Park, HunHo; Peres, Gabriel H.; Porras, Jose Luis; Prevedello, Daniel M.; Rassi, Marcio S.; Rassi-Neto, Aziz; Recinos, Pablo F.; Rehder, Roberta; Reis, Cassius Vinicius Correa dos; Reyes, Laura Matilde Ubaldo; Rhoton, Albert; Ribas, Eduardo Carvalhal; Ríos-Zermeño, Jorge; Rocha, Eder da Silva; Romano-Feinholz, Samuel; Ronconi, Daniel; Rosito, Diego Méndez; S., Vignesh; Sáenz, Amparo; Safarov, Aidar Kh.; Sagar, Soumya; Sanchez, Miguel M.; Shrestha, Sudeep; Silva, Izabel Eugênia Costa e; da Silveira, Roberto Leal; Snyderman, Carl H.; Socolovsky, Mariano; Spetzler, Robert F.; Sufianov, Rinat A.; Sufianov, Albert A.; Thingujam, Jagadish; Todeschini, Alexandre B.; Valença, Marcelo; Valencia-Ramos, Cristopher G.; Veiga, José Carlos Esteves; Vescan, Allan; Villalonga, Juan F.; Volovetz, Josephine; Wang, Eric W.; Watanabe, Kentaro; Wicks, Robert T.; Witterick, Ian; Yasuda, Alexandre; Zadeh, Gelareh; Zagzoog, Nirmeen; Zahrani, Abdulrahman Al; Zhao, Xiaochun; Zoli, M.

Title: Microsurgical and Endoscopic Approaches to the Skull Base

Subtitle: Anatomy, Tactics, and Techniques

Print ISBN: 9781626239661; Online ISBN: 9781684203772; Book DOI: 10.1055/b000000340

1. Edition © 2021. Thieme. All rights reserved.
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Subjects: Neurosurgery;Otorhinolaryngology, Phoniatrics, Audiology

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Robert T. Wicks, Xiaochun Zhao, and Peter Nakaji

Abstract

The supracerebellar infratentorial approach can provide direct access to potential pathologies of the pineal region, quadrigeminal plate, and superior cerebellar artery. The medial pulvinar, bilateral atria of the lateral ventricles, and mesial temporal region can also be approached through a transtentorial extension. Complications are minimized through a minimally invasive, off-midline craniotomy and integration of the high-definition endoscope from the beginning of the case. Three representative cases showing the dynamic options available through this surgical approach are presented.

Key words

endoscope - extreme lateral - lateral ventricle - pineal - pulvinar - splenium - superior colliculus - supracerebellar infratentorial - third ventricle
 
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