Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
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Intraoperative imaging during skull base surgery allows the surgeon to evaluate surgical results and direct further bone resection prior to closure, avoiding the potential morbidity of inadequate surgical therapy or reoperation. Intraoperative CT (iCT) scanning has become widely available in recent years, but its neurosurgical applications have been limited mostly to spinal and functional operations. ⋯ Postoperatively, the patient experienced resolution of her proptosis, and her vision remains clinically normal. The O-arm(®) can be easily incorporated into standard operating rooms and is useful in tailoring bony skull base resections.
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Ophthalmic segment aneurysms refer to superior hypophyseal artery aneurysms, true ophthalmic artery aneurysms, and their dorsal variant. Indications for treatment of these aneurysms include concerning morphological features, large size, visual loss, or rupture. Although narrow-necked aneurysms are ideal endovascular targets, more complex and larger lesions necessitating adjunctive stent or flow-diversion techniques may be suitably treated with long-lasting, effective clip ligation instead. ⋯ In the management of superior hypophyseal artery aneurysms, emphasis is placed on identifying and preserving superior hypophyseal artery perforators, using serial fenestrated straight clips rather than a single right-angled fenestrated clip to obliterate the aneurysm. Post-clipping indocyanine green dye angiography is a crucial tool to confirm aneurysm obliteration and the preservation of the parent vasculature and adjacent superior hypophyseal artery perforators. With careful attention to the nuances of microsurgical clipping of ophthalmic segment aneurysms, rewarding results can be obtained.