The Carotid-Vertebral Space: An ‘Extended’ Lateral Window to the Ventromedial Cranial Base and Lower Craniocervical Junction
Year: 2005
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: We describe a unique method of accessing the ventromedial skull base and lower craniocervical junction. Our method employs a trajectory between that of the more anterior transoral or retropharyngeal approaches and the various posterior or posterolateral skull base approaches. This "extended" lateral approach allows surgeons to resect very large tumors of the skull base through a single incision. The operative field is more extensive than that achieved with other approaches; it extends from the cerebellar hemisphere to the extradural ventral upper cervical spine, and it provides access to tissue outside the spinal canal, such as the ventral strap muscles. We describe our use of this approach during a single-stage resection of a large hemangiopericytoma in a 37-year-old man.
Source: Ear Nose & Throat Journal
Institution: University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2411587377