Access to Meckel's cave for biopsies of indeterminate lesions: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Accessing Meckel's cave (MC) is surgically challenging. Open approaches are complex and often correlated with high morbidity. Endoscopic approaches emerged in the last decade as feasible alternatives to open approaches, especially for sampling indeterminate lesions. This article first analyses available routes to approach Meckel's cave and presents furthermore an illustrative case. We conducted a systematic review and reported according to the guidelines for preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA). Various surgical approaches identified through the search are evaluated and discussed in detail. Additionally, we report on a case of woman with a lesion in MC, which was accessed through an endoscopic transpterygoid approach subsequently diagnosed as a diffus

SUBMITTER: Suero Molina E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7850998 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature