Use of Clamp-Like Devices to Fix Bifrontal Basal Craniotomies: Three Case Reports.

ABSTRACT: The three case reports presented here provide clinical evidence of a configuration to easily and successfully fix bifrontal basal craniotomies with a clamp-like fixation device (Cranial LOOP™, NEOS Surgery, Barcelona, Spain): A 72-year-old woman undergoing resection of a meningioma at the sphenoidal level, a 43-year-old man undergoing clipping of an anterior communicating artery aneurism, and a 55-year-old woman undergoing macroscopical resection of a meningioma on the olfactory groove had their surgery performed through a bifrontal basal craniotomy, and, once the intervention was completed, the fixation of the cranial flap was performed using Cranial LOOP™, with a configuration consisting of two Cranial LOOP™ L at the basal lateral level and two additional products at the posterior fronta

SUBMITTER: Gomez de la Riva A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10870103 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature