Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature

The pineal gland has a deep central location, making it a surgeon’s no man’s land. Surgical pathology within this territory presents a unique challenge and an opportunity for employment of various surgical techniques. In modern times, the microsurgical technique has been competing with the endoscope...

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Autores principales: Snyder, Rita, Felbaum, Daniel R, Jean, Walter C, Anaizi, Amjad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
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Neurosurgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28690962
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1329
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Felbaum, Daniel R
Jean, Walter C
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description The pineal gland has a deep central location, making it a surgeon’s no man’s land. Surgical pathology within this territory presents a unique challenge and an opportunity for employment of various surgical techniques. In modern times, the microsurgical technique has been competing with the endoscope for achieving superior surgical results. We describe two cases utilizing a purely endoscopic and an endoscopic-assisted supracerebellar infratentorial approach in accessing lesions of the pineal gland. We also discuss our early learning experience with these approaches.
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spelling pubmed-55017152017-07-09 Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature Snyder, Rita Felbaum, Daniel R Jean, Walter C Anaizi, Amjad Cureus Neurosurgery The pineal gland has a deep central location, making it a surgeon’s no man’s land. Surgical pathology within this territory presents a unique challenge and an opportunity for employment of various surgical techniques. In modern times, the microsurgical technique has been competing with the endoscope for achieving superior surgical results. We describe two cases utilizing a purely endoscopic and an endoscopic-assisted supracerebellar infratentorial approach in accessing lesions of the pineal gland. We also discuss our early learning experience with these approaches. Cureus 2017-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC5501715/ /pubmed/28690962 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1329 Text en Copyright © 2017, Snyder et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Neurosurgery
Snyder, Rita
Felbaum, Daniel R
Jean, Walter C
Anaizi, Amjad
Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature
title Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature
title_full Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature
title_fullStr Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature
title_full_unstemmed Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature
title_short Supracerebellar Infratentorial Endoscopic and Endoscopic-Assisted Approaches to Pineal Lesions: Technical Report and Review of the Literature
title_sort supracerebellar infratentorial endoscopic and endoscopic-assisted approaches to pineal lesions: technical report and review of the literature
topic Neurosurgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5501715/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28690962
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1329
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