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Microsurgical Principles for Anterior Circulation Aneurysms

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Surgical Management of Cerebrovascular Disease

Part of the book series: Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum ((NEUROCHIRURGICA,volume 107))

Abstract

Microneurosurgical techniques introduced by Prof. Yaşargil have been modified by the senior author (JH) when treating more than 4,000 patients with aneurysms at two of the Departments of Neurosurgery in Finland, Kuopio and Helsinki, with a total catchment area of close to three million people. This experience is reviewed, and the treatment of anterior circulation aneurysms by simple, fast, normal anatomy preserving strategy is presented.

Most of the aneurysms of the anterior circulation are treated by using the lateral supraorbital approach, a less invasive, more frontally located modification of the pterional approach. To avoid extensive skull base surgery, a slack brain is needed and achieved by experienced neuroanesthesia and by surgical tricks for removal of CSF.

Diagnosis of cerebral aneurysm before rupture improves treatment results more than any technical advances. Until this is realized, we continue to treat cerebral aneurysms by simple, fast, preserving normal anatomy-strategy, which has served our patients well.

Patients with cerebral aneurysms should be treated at specialized neurovascular centers.

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    Rossana Romani, Aki Laakso, Mika Niemelä, Martin Lehecka, Reza Dashti, Puchong Isarakul, Özgür Celik, Ondrej Navratil, Hanna Lehto, Riku Kivisaari & Juha Hernesniemi

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Romani, R. et al. (2010). Microsurgical Principles for Anterior Circulation Aneurysms. In: Surgical Management of Cerebrovascular Disease. Acta Neurochirurgica Supplementum, vol 107. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99373-6_1

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