TY - JOUR
T1 - Transpalpebral orbitofrontal craniotomy
T2 - A minimally invasive approach to anterior cranial vault lesions
AU - Boahene, Kofi D.Owusu
AU - Lim, Michael
AU - Chu, Eugene
AU - Quinones-Hinojosa, Alfredo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - To describe a minimally invasive approach to anterior cranial vault pathology using a transpalpebral exposure with a miniorbitofrontal craniotomy. Design: Case series. Setting: Tertiary referral hospital with multidisciplinary skull base program. Participants include patients with intra-axial and extra-axial anterior skull base lesions who underwent the transpalpebral minicraniotomy approach. Main Outcome measures: Feasibility of the approach to permit adequate exposure of targeted lesion. We applied this approach in seven patients for the repair of persistent cerebrospinal fluid leaks, pneumocephalus, and the biopsy or resection of midline brain tumors along the anterior cranial base. The approach allowed bimanual instrumentation working with either endoscopic or microscopic visualization for tumor resection and repair of dural and cranial base defects. We measured an average working distance of 4 cm to the sella. The transpalpebral miniorbitofrontal craniotomy approach to the anterior cranial base is quick, adequate, and safe and should be considered as an alternative to extended bifrontal approaches and/or pterional craniotomies for select anterior cranial vault pathology.
AB - To describe a minimally invasive approach to anterior cranial vault pathology using a transpalpebral exposure with a miniorbitofrontal craniotomy. Design: Case series. Setting: Tertiary referral hospital with multidisciplinary skull base program. Participants include patients with intra-axial and extra-axial anterior skull base lesions who underwent the transpalpebral minicraniotomy approach. Main Outcome measures: Feasibility of the approach to permit adequate exposure of targeted lesion. We applied this approach in seven patients for the repair of persistent cerebrospinal fluid leaks, pneumocephalus, and the biopsy or resection of midline brain tumors along the anterior cranial base. The approach allowed bimanual instrumentation working with either endoscopic or microscopic visualization for tumor resection and repair of dural and cranial base defects. We measured an average working distance of 4 cm to the sella. The transpalpebral miniorbitofrontal craniotomy approach to the anterior cranial base is quick, adequate, and safe and should be considered as an alternative to extended bifrontal approaches and/or pterional craniotomies for select anterior cranial vault pathology.
KW - Eyelid
KW - anterior skull base approach
KW - minimally invasive
KW - palpebral
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U2 - 10.1055/s-0030-1249247
DO - 10.1055/s-0030-1249247
M3 - Article
C2 - 21311616
AN - SCOPUS:77955490785
SN - 1531-5010
VL - 20
SP - 237
EP - 244
JO - Skull Base
JF - Skull Base
IS - 4
ER -