Has intraoperative neuromonitoring changed the surgery for unruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysms? A retrospective comparative study

B Skrap, R Di Bonaventura, M Di Domenico… - Neurosurgical …, 2023 - Springer
Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) represents one of the available
technologies able to assess ischemia and aimed to improve surgical outcome reducing the …

Clipping versus coiling for treatment of middle cerebral artery aneurysms: a retrospective Italian multicenter experience

CL Sturiale, A Scerrati, L Ricciardi, O Rustemi… - Neurosurgical …, 2022 - Springer
Endovascular treatment has emerged as the predominant approach in intracranial
aneurysms. However, surgical clipping is still considered the best treatment for middle …

The Use of Intraoperative Microvascular Doppler in Vascular Neurosurgery: Rationale and Results—A Systematic Review

V Gulino, L Brunasso, C Avallone, BM Campisi… - Brain Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Surgical treatment of neurovascular lesions like intracranial aneurysms, arteriovenous
malformations and arteriovenous dural fistulas is still associated with high morbidity. Several …

Lateral supraorbital versus pterional approach: analysis of surgical, functional, and patient-oriented outcomes

G La Rocca, GM Della Pepa, CL Sturiale, G Sabatino… - World neurosurgery, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Recently, the lateral supraorbital (LSO) keyhole variant of the standard
pterional (PT) approach has been popularized for anterior skull base surgery, because it …

[HTML][HTML] Esthetics outcomes in patients submitted to pterional craniotomy and its variants: A scoping review

DB Gonçalves, MIA Dos Santos… - Surgical Neurology …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background: Highly performed nowadays, the pterional craniotomy (PC) has several
widespread variants. However, these procedures are associated with complications such as …

Comparison between minipterional craniotomy associated with focused Sylvian fissure opening and standard pterional approach with extended Sylvian fissure …

R Di Bonaventura, CL Sturiale, K Latour… - World Neurosurgery, 2021 - Elsevier
Background In our institution, standard pterional craniotomy (PC) with an extended Sylvian
fissure opening (ESFO) represented the standard approach for unruptured middle cerebral …

Surgical treatment of middle cerebral artery aneurysms: hints and precautions for young cerebrovascular surgeons

CL Sturiale, A Rapisarda, E Marchese… - … Surgery Part A …, 2022 - thieme-connect.com
Background and Objective Clipping is still considered the treatment of choice for middle
cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms due to their angioarchitectural characteristics as they are …

The extradural minipterional approach for the treatment of paraclinoid aneurysms: a cadaver stepwise dissection and clinical case series

R Martinez-Perez, H Joswig, A Tsimpas, T Poblete… - Neurosurgical …, 2020 - Springer
Minipterional (MPT) craniotomy has recently been added to the neurosurgical
armamentarium as a less invasive alternative to the pterional craniotomy for the treatment of …

Assessment of postoperative pain, dysesthesia, and weather sensitivity after pterional and temporal neurosurgical approaches

N Jarc, C Scheiwe, DTT Plachta, C Schmoor… - Journal of …, 2023 - thejns.org
OBJECTIVE Many neurosurgical approaches require incision of the temporal muscle (TM).
Consequently, patients often report reduced opening of the mouth, facial asymmetry …

'What's in a name', a systematic review of the pterional craniotomy for aneurysm surgery and its many modifications with a proposal for simplified nomenclature

NG Candy, J Van Der Veken, V Van Velthoven - Acta Neurochirurgica, 2024 - Springer
Background The pterional or frontosphenotemporal craniotomy has stood the test of time
and continues to be a commonly used method of managing a variety of neurosurgical …