How I do it: endoscopic microvascular decompression for hemifacial spasm associated with anterior inferior cerebellar artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery common trunk.
Acta Neurochir (Wien)
; 166(1): 49, 2024 Jan 30.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38289407
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Multiple vessels from the anterior inferior cerebellar artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery common trunk (APC) variation of the posterior circulation can cause hemifacial spasm (HFS).METHOD:
Endoscopic microvascular decompression (eMVD) was performed using 0° and 30° endoscopes through a retrosigmoid keyhole. The root exit zone (REZ) was decompressed by transpositioning the offending anterior inferior cerebellar artery (AICA) and posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) arising from the APC under excellent endoscopic view.CONCLUSION:
eMVD is an advanced, minimally invasive and reliable technique to resolve the neurovascular conflict (NVC) in HFS due to offenders from APC.Palavras-chave
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Espasmo Hemifacial
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Cirurgia de Descompressão Microvascular
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Cardiopatias Congênitas
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Acta Neurochir (Wien)
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Japão