Preoperative surgical planning for an internal carotid artery invading brain tumor

[Surgical anatomy of the internal carotid artery].

Starting from the carotid trigone, a surgical approach to the parapharyngeal part of the internal carotid artery is described. The retrostyloidal part of the lateropharyngeal space is opened up from laterocaudal after resecting the posterior belly of the digastric muscle and the styloidal muscles. Vulneration of the cranial nerves (VII, IX, X) has to be prevented.

An Evaluative Tool For Preoperative Planning of Brain Tumor Resection

A patient specific finite element biphasic brain model has been utilized to codify a surgeon's experience by establishing quantifiable biomechanical measures to score orientations for optimal planning of brain tumor resection. When faced with evaluating several potential approaches to tumor removal during preoperative planning, the goal of this work is to facilitate the surgeon’s selection of a...

A Penetrating Pellet Jeopardizing Internal Carotid Artery

Surgical treatment for pseudo-occlusion of the internal carotid artery.

OBJECTIVES Carotid artery pseudo-occlusion is a rare condition and its natural history and clinicopathological characteristics are not well defined. We reported our 7-year experience in the surgical treatment of carotid artery pseudo-occlusion to determine the real benefit of the surgical option. METHODS From January 2006 to December 2013, 1414 patients were treated for high-grade stenosis of...

Surgical treatment of giant extracranial internal carotid artery aneurysm.