Skull Base Surgery Complications: An Overview
Highlights • The main goal of all skull base approaches, whether microscopic or endoscopic, is to minimize the brain retraction by optimum bone resection. • The common complications of skull…
Complications of AVM Microsurgery; Steal Phenomenon and Management of Residual AVM
Highlights • Careful patient selection, meticulous microsurgical technique, refined surgical strategy, and high-volume operative experience with arteriovenous malformations is key to prevent complications during microsurgical arteriovenous malformation resection. • Intraoperative…
Cerebral Vasospasm: Complications and Avoidance
Abstract Treatment of vasospasm associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage can be complex and fraught with potential complications. The long-time course requires continual diligence to avoid these complications. At present, no…
Intraoperative Rupture and Parent Artery Injury During Aneurysm Surgery
Abstract Intraoperative rupture during surgery to clip intracranial aneurysms is an inevitable, but manageable occurrence. Myriad patient and anatomic factors, as well as surgical missteps, increase the risk of intraoperative…
Complications in Vascular Neurosurgery—Overview
Abstract Cerebrovascular surgery is associated with relatively higher mortality and morbidity in comparison to other subspecialties of neurosurgery. Advancements in surgical technology, anesthesia, and intensive care have improved the overall…
Postoperative Hematoma in Cranial and Spinal Surgery
Highlights • The cranial perspective • Postoperative hemorrhage is one of the most serious complications of any cranial neurosurgical procedure. • The incidence figures for clinically significant postoperative hemorrhage for…
Historical Perspective
Bhavani Kura Anil Nanda If a physician make[s] a large incision with the operating knife, and kill[s] him, or open[s] a tumor with the operating knife, and cut[s] out the eye, his…
Venous Injuries and Cerebral Edema in Cranial Surgery
Highlights • The exact consequences of “venous injury,” inadvertently caused during the course of routine neurosurgical operations, find scant mention in neurosurgical literature. • Numerous so-called “unpredictable” postoperative complications in…
Surgical Complications in Neurosurgery
Highlights • Avoidance of surgical complications is an important step in achieving a profitable health care system and therefore needs a judicious reporting system in defining the incidence of complications….
Medical Complications in Neurosurgery
Highlights • Medical complication after a neurosurgical procedure is defined as an unanticipated adverse event that is not directly related to the neurosurgical technique or procedure. • It includes venous…
