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Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus
The occipital sinus may occasionally remain patent, but the incidence is extremely low and observed in less than 10% of cases. A persistent patent occipital sinus (POS) may be associated with other venous sinus abnormality. The absence of transverse sinus in association with POS is an extremely rare...
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2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6779551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31595126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1696081 |
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author | Satyarthee, Guru Dutta Moscote-Salazar, Luis Rafael Agrawal, Amit |
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description | The occipital sinus may occasionally remain patent, but the incidence is extremely low and observed in less than 10% of cases. A persistent patent occipital sinus (POS) may be associated with other venous sinus abnormality. The absence of transverse sinus in association with POS is an extremely rare condition and not reported yet. The neuroradiologist, neurosurgeons, otolaryngologist, and neurologist must be aware of the possible existence of POS and other associated venous sinus anomaly, as its warrants very crucial modification of surgical planning, selection of appropriate approaches, and, additionally, may also critically limit the extent of surgical exposure of target, and may hinder intended extent of surgical excision of tumor and associated possibility of injury to POS, which may produce catastrophic hemorrhage, brain swelling, and neurosurgical morbidity. The authors report a 35-year-old male who underwent suboccipital craniotomy for right-side giant acoustic schwannoma. Following the raising bone flap, a markedly prominent, turgid, occipital sinus was observed, not placed exactly in the midline but deviated to the right side, causing further restraining of dural opening. Surgical nuances and intraoperative difficulty encountered along with pertinent literature is reviewed briefly. |
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spelling | pubmed-67795512019-10-08 Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus Satyarthee, Guru Dutta Moscote-Salazar, Luis Rafael Agrawal, Amit J Neurosci Rural Pract The occipital sinus may occasionally remain patent, but the incidence is extremely low and observed in less than 10% of cases. A persistent patent occipital sinus (POS) may be associated with other venous sinus abnormality. The absence of transverse sinus in association with POS is an extremely rare condition and not reported yet. The neuroradiologist, neurosurgeons, otolaryngologist, and neurologist must be aware of the possible existence of POS and other associated venous sinus anomaly, as its warrants very crucial modification of surgical planning, selection of appropriate approaches, and, additionally, may also critically limit the extent of surgical exposure of target, and may hinder intended extent of surgical excision of tumor and associated possibility of injury to POS, which may produce catastrophic hemorrhage, brain swelling, and neurosurgical morbidity. The authors report a 35-year-old male who underwent suboccipital craniotomy for right-side giant acoustic schwannoma. Following the raising bone flap, a markedly prominent, turgid, occipital sinus was observed, not placed exactly in the midline but deviated to the right side, causing further restraining of dural opening. Surgical nuances and intraoperative difficulty encountered along with pertinent literature is reviewed briefly. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers 2019-07 2019-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC6779551/ /pubmed/31595126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1696081 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Satyarthee, Guru Dutta Moscote-Salazar, Luis Rafael Agrawal, Amit Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus |
title | Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus |
title_full | Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus |
title_fullStr | Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus |
title_full_unstemmed | Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus |
title_short | Persistent Enlarged Occipital Sinus with Absent Unilateral Transverse Sinus |
title_sort | persistent enlarged occipital sinus with absent unilateral transverse sinus |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6779551/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31595126 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0039-1696081 |
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