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Endoscopic Endonasal Transclival Approach to the Ventral Brainstem: Anatomic Study of the Safe Entry Zones Combining Fiber Dissection Technique with 7 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Guided Neuronavigation

Alessandro Weiss, Paolo Perrini, Matteo de Notaris, Guadalupe Sòria, Carlos Alarcon, Maura Castagna, L. Lutzemberger, Orazio Santo Santonocito, Giuseppe Catapano, Amin Kassam,

Operative Neurosurgery · 2018 · 14 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

Exposure of the ventral brainstem with EETA requires mastering surgical maneuvers, including pituitary transposition and extradural petrosectomy. The correlation of fiber dissection with 7T-MRI neuronavigation significantly improves the understanding of the brainstem anatomy.

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