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Endoscopic treatment of middle fossa arachnoid cysts. 2017

Waleed A Azab, and Mohamed Almanabri, and Waleed Yosef

Department of Neurosurgery, Ibn Sina Hospital, P.O. Box: 25427, 13115, Safat, Kuwait. waleedazab@hotmail.com.

Endoscopic treatment of middle fossa arachnoid cysts is an alternative option to microsurgical fenestration and shunting procedures. The procedure is minimally invasive and obviates the morbidity of craniotomy and shunting. Operative charts and videos of patients undergoing endoscopic fenestration of middle fossa arachnoid cysts were retrieved from the senior author's database of endoscopic procedures and reviewed. Description of the surgical techniques was then formulated. Endoscopic fenestration of middle fossa arachnoid cysts entails communicating the cyst cavity to the basal cisterns via multiple fenestrations that should be made as large as possible with care to avoid injury of the juxtaposed neurovascular structures.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016080	Arachnoid Cysts	Intracranial or spinal cavities containing a cerebrospinal-like fluid, the wall of which is composed of arachnoidal cells. They are most often developmental or related to trauma. Intracranial arachnoid cysts usually occur adjacent to arachnoidal cistern and may present with HYDROCEPHALUS; HEADACHE; SEIZURES; and focal neurologic signs. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1994, Ch44, pp105-115)	Arachnoid Diverticula,Leptomeningeal Cysts,Arachnoid Cysts, Intracranial,Intracranial Arachnoid Cysts,Arachnoid Cyst, Intracranial,Arachnoid Diverticulas,Cyst, Arachnoid,Cyst, Intracranial Arachnoid,Cyst, Leptomeningeal,Cysts, Arachnoid,Cysts, Intracranial Arachnoid,Cysts, Leptomeningeal,Diverticula, Arachnoid,Diverticulas, Arachnoid,Intracranial Arachnoid Cyst,Leptomeningeal Cyst
D016896	Treatment Outcome	Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.	Rehabilitation Outcome,Treatment Effectiveness,Clinical Effectiveness,Clinical Efficacy,Patient-Relevant Outcome,Treatment Efficacy,Effectiveness, Clinical,Effectiveness, Treatment,Efficacy, Clinical,Efficacy, Treatment,Outcome, Patient-Relevant,Outcome, Rehabilitation,Outcome, Treatment,Outcomes, Patient-Relevant,Patient Relevant Outcome,Patient-Relevant Outcomes
D044583	Neuroendoscopy	PROCEDURES that use NEUROENDOSCOPES for disease diagnosis and treatment. Neuroendoscopy, generally an integration of the neuroendoscope with a computer-assisted NEURONAVIGATION system, provides guidance in NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES.	Neuroendoscopies
D035301	Cranial Fossa, Middle	The compartment containing the anterior extremities and half the inferior surface of the temporal lobes (TEMPORAL LOBE) of the cerebral hemispheres. Lying posterior and inferior to the anterior cranial fossa (CRANIAL FOSSA, ANTERIOR), it is formed by part of the TEMPORAL BONE and SPHENOID BONE. It is separated from the posterior cranial fossa (CRANIAL FOSSA, POSTERIOR) by crests formed by the superior borders of the petrous parts of the temporal bones.	Middle Cranial Fossa,Fossa, Middle Cranial