Postoperative complications in endoscopic frontal transcortical surgery of lateral and third ventricle tumours

Abstract

Neurosurgical approaches to lesions of the lateral and the third ventricles are divided into two fundamentally different groups: transcortical neurosurgical approaches, including - endoscopic and interhemispheric transcallosal micro-neurosurgical approaches. Complications in surgery of lateral and third ventricle tumours are often associated with the specific approach technique and could be transient. We analyzed postoperative neurological complications and the approach criteria on MRI or CT scans in the postoperative period such as localization of corticotomy, distance from corticotomy to the coronal suture, “angle of attack” after the frontal transcortical approach to the lateral and third ventricle based on 54 cases and presume transient nature of specific to approach complications and approaches’ factors that have a role in postoperative mutism.

Keywords

• endoscopic
• lateral ventricle
• mutism
• third ventricle
• transcortical approach