Surgical treatment of tentorial notch meningiomas

Authors

  • A. F. Smeyanovich Research Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy, Minsk, Belarus
  • Yu. G. Shanko Research Institute of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Physiotherapy, Minsk, Belarus

Keywords:

meningioma, opening the cerebellar tentorium, the free edge of the cerebellar tentorium, surgical treatment, suboccipital approachs, supra- and subtentorial approache subtentorial-supracerebellar approache

Abstract

The aspects of diagnostics and surgical treatment of meningiomas of the tentorial notch are described in the article. 5 clinical cases were analyzed by the authors. The tumors of lateral localization were removed through the lateral suboccipital retrosigmoid (2 cases) and combined supra-, subtentorial (1 case) approaches. Meningiomas of postero-medial localization were removed through the subtentorial-supracerebellar (1 patient) and combined supra-, subtentorial (1 case) approaches. There were no postoperative mortality.

The rational surgical approach is chosen individually, depending on the intrascopic picture of disease, emphasize.

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Smeyanovich, A. F., & Shanko, Y. G. Surgical treatment of tentorial notch meningiomas. Ukrainian Neurosurgical Journal, (2), 25–29. Retrieved from https://theunj.org/article/view/141696

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No. 2 (2004)

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