• World Neurosurg · May 2023

    A novel surgical classification of the Sylvian Fissure and its implications on the clinical and radiological outcomes of patients undergoing clipping for unruptured middle cerebral artery aneurysms.

    • Ufuk Erginoglu, Sahin Hanalioglu, Burak Ozaydin, Abdullah Keles, and Mustafa K Baskaya.
    • Department of Neurological Surgery, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
    • World Neurosurg. 2023 May 1; 173: e639e646e639-e646.

    BackgroundThe main access route for middle cerebral artery (MCA) aneurysms is the transsylvian approach. Although Sylvian fissure (SF) variations have been assessed, none have examined how this affects MCA aneurysm surgery. The objective of this study is to investigate how SF variants affect clinical and radiological outcomes for surgically-treated unruptured MCA aneurysms.MethodsThis retrospective study examined consecutive unruptured MCA aneurysms in 101 patients undergoing SF dissection and aneurysm clipping. SF anatomical variants were categorized using a novel functional anatomical classification: Type I: Wide straight, Type II: Wide with frontal and/or temporal opercula herniation, Type III: Narrow straight, and Type IV: Narrow with frontal and/or temporal opercula herniation. The relationships between SF variants and postoperative edema, ischemia, hemorrhage, vasospasm, and Glasgow Outcome Scale (GOS) were analyzed.ResultsStudy included 101 patients (53.5% women), 60.9 ± 9.4 (range 24-78) years. SF types were 29.7% Type I, 19.8% Type II, 35.6% Type III, and 14.9% Type IV. The SF type with the highest proportion of females was Type IV (n = 11, 73.3%), while it was Type III for males (n = 23, 63.9%) (P = 0.03). There were significant differences between SF types, ischemia, and edema (P < 0.001, P = 0.008, respectively). Although narrow SF types had poorer GOS scores (P = 0.055), there were no significant differences between SF types and GOS, postoperative hemorrhage, vasospasm, or hospital stay.ConclusionsSylvian fissure variants may impact intraoperative complications during aneurysm surgery. Thus, presurgical determination of SF variants can predict surgical difficulties, thereby potentially reducing morbidity for patients with MCA aneurysms and other pathologies requiring SF dissection.Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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