Significance of the tentorial alignment in approaching the trigeminal nerve and the ventral petrous region through the suboccipital retrosigmoid technique

SADE B., Lee J. H.

JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY, vol.107, no.5, pp.932-936, 2007 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 107 Issue: 5
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Doi Number: 10.3171/jns-07/11/0932
  • Journal Name: JOURNAL OF NEUROSURGERY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.932-936
  • Keywords: cerebellopontine angle, petroclival region, retrosigmoid approach, tentorium, trigeminal nerve, PETROCLIVAL MENINGIOMAS, POSTERIOR-FOSSA, MICROVASCULAR DECOMPRESSION, MICROSURGICAL ANATOMY, SURGICAL EXPERIENCE, HEMIFACIAL SPASM, I MALFORMATION, NEURALGIA, ANGLE, BASE
  • Dokuz Eylül University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Object. In this study, the authors aimed to identify the factors that would predict the operative distance between the trigeminal nerve (fifth cranial nerve) and the acousticofacial nerve complex (seventh-eighth cranial nerves) preoperalively when approaching the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) through the suboccipital retrosigmoid approach.