Underlay hourglass-shaped autologous pericranium duraplasty in "key-hole" retrosigmoid approach surgery: Technical report.
Surg Neurol Int
; 7: 25, 2016.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakages represent a major complication of skull base surgery. Watertight dural suture is challenging, and different ways to reinforce it have been proposed. Since 6 months, we use locally harvested autologous pericranium graft for dural repair in retrosigmoid approach.METHODS:
Retrospectively, we analyzed 27 patients operated on with key-hole retrosigmoid approach from May 2014. In all, autologous pericranium was harvested and inserted as an underlay "hourglass-shaped" plug under the dura plane and stitched to dura. Surgical patch and sealant were used for augmentation. Complications considered were new neurological symptoms, surgical site infections, meningitis, CSF-leaks, and pseudomeningocele.RESULTS:
Indications included tumor (16 cases), microvascular decompression (10 cases), and hemorrhagic cerebellar arteriovenous malformation (1 case). Surgical site infections, meningitis, and CSF leaks have never been observed. One neurofibromatosis type 2 patient operated on for large acoustic neuroma developed an asymptomatic pseudomeningocele, disappeared on 3-month magnetic resonance imaging follow-up.CONCLUSIONS:
In our series, autologous pericranium inserted and stitched as an underlay hourglass-shaped plug, augmented with surgical patch pieces and dural sealant seemed to be safe and effective for dural repair in "key-hole" retrosigmoid approach. With this technique, we obtained low complication rate, similar to the best current results of available literature.
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Surg Neurol Int
Ano de publicação:
2016
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Itália