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- Elly Chaskis, Niloufar Sadeghi, Olivier De Witte, and Florence Lefranc.
- Department of Neurosurgery, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
- World Neurosurg. 2019 Apr 1; 124: 298303298-303.
BackgroundNeurooncologic patients frequently require surgery, and neurosurgical devices are often implanted during neurosurgery. These devices could disturb oncologic follow-up by magnetic resonance imaging.MethodsThe authors describe the use of neurosurgical devices, such as bone substitutes, ventriculoperitoneal shunts, and titanium skull fixations, in neurooncologic patients.ResultsAcrylic cement cranioplasty, valve of ventriculoperitoneal shunt, and titanium skull fixations produced magnetic artifacts disturbing postoperative magnetic resonance imaging.ConclusionsThe authors highlight the fact that all these neurosurgical devices implanted during surgery should be carefully evaluated to allow appropriate imaging follow-up for neurooncologic patients, which is a problem that remains underreported in the literature.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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