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Endoscopic treatment of middle fossa arachnoid cysts
Waleed A Azab1, Mohamed Almanabri2, Waleed Yosef2
1Department of Neurosurgery, Ibn Sina Hospital, P.O. Box: 25427, 13115, Safat, Kuwait. waleedazab@hotmail.com.
Background:
Endoscopic treatment of middle fossa arachnoid cysts is an alternative option to microsurgical fenestration and shunting procedures. The procedure is minimally invasive and obviates the morbidity of craniotomy and shunting.
Methods:
Operative charts and videos of patients undergoing endoscopic fenestration of middle fossa arachnoid cysts were retrieved from the senior author's database of endoscopic procedures and reviewed. Description of the surgical techniques was then formulated.
Conclusions:
Endoscopic fenestration of middle fossa arachnoid cysts entails communicating the cyst cavity to the basal cisterns via multiple fenestrations that should be made as large as possible with care to avoid injury of the juxtaposed neurovascular structures.
