Highlights • Watertight dural closure and careful wound closure in multiple layers are imperative to prevent cerebrospinal fluid leak and pseudomeningocele. • Avoid vascular or brainstem injury with sharp, midline…
Abstract Cerebral bypass is a technically demanding surgery that can be fraught with several complications, including donor vessel injury, intraoperative bypass occlusion, postoperative bypass occlusion, and hemorrhage. Several management strategies…
Abstract Cavernomas may arise everywhere in the Central Nervous System. These benign vascular lesions can be really harmful for the patient provoking death or severe neurological disability. Surgery is the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
