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The authors report their experiences gained from 19 patients with ventral or ventrolateral foramen magnum meningiomas operated on via the dorsolateral, suboccipital transcondylar access route. It is emphasized that the microsurgical management of these lesions includes two important aspects which increase the safety of the procedure: a meticulous preoperative planning based on the micro-anatomical details of each patient, as well as an individualized tailoring of the surgical approach. There were no deaths, and, in the past 5 years, no neurological complications in this series. Gross total removal of the tumour was achieved in each case. It is concluded that microsurgical removal of ventral or ventrolateral foramen magnum meningiomas with this technique constitutes a safe and recommendable procedure.
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Bertalanffy, H., Gilsbach, J.M., Mayfrank, L., Klein, H.M., Kawase, T., Seeger, W. (1996). Microsurgical Management of Ventral and Ventrolateral Foramen Magnum Meningiomas. In: Fahlbusch, R., Bock, W.J., Brock, M., Buchfelder, M., Klinger, M. (eds) Modern Neurosurgery of Meningiomas and Pituitary Adenomas. Acta Neurochirurgica, vol 65. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-9450-8_23
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