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10 Keyhole Supraorbital Craniotomy: Eyelid and Eyebrow Approaches

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Endoscopic and Keyhole Cranial Base Surgery

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The keyhole supraorbital craniotomy provides a versatile approach to many vascular lesions and tumors of the anterior and middle fossa. Eyelid and eyebrow approaches allow the keyhole craniotomy to also minimize soft tissue trauma to the scalp and face. These techniques reduce initial exposure time, blood loss, and postsurgical pain and discomfort with very low infection rates compared to the traditional pterional approach. Both the eyelid and eyebrow incision have excellent long-term cosmetic outcomes and patient satisfaction rates.

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  1. Department of Neurosurgery, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Gordon Mao & Khaled Abdel Aziz

  2. Department of Neurosurgery, Drexel Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Gordon Mao

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France

    Nouman Aldahak & Khaled Abdel Aziz

  4. Department of Neurosurgery, Drexel Medical School, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Nouman Aldahak

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Mao, G., Aldahak, N., Aziz, K.A. (2019). 10 Keyhole Supraorbital Craniotomy: Eyelid and Eyebrow Approaches. In: Evans, J., Kenning, T., Farrell, C., Kshettry, V. (eds) Endoscopic and Keyhole Cranial Base Surgery . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64379-3_10

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