H Abe, M Tsuru, T Ito, Y Nakagawa, S Kaneko, Y Iwasaki, T Aida, H Kamiyama, K Echizenya
It is essential to make a proper approach to the lesion site and retract brain, thereby securing an adequate field of vision, upon performing operations on patients for lesions of deep temporal lobe and tentorium. Although subtemporal transtentorial approaches to tumors in the tentorium, pyramis and cerebellopontine angle have been described by a number of workers, further studies have to be made on temporal lobe damage as a pitfall since only a few reports have been published to date. We have therefore examined the possible factors which are responsible for temporal lobe damage and brain swelling in six cases in which subtemporal transtentorial approaches were made...
June 1981: No Shinkei Geka. Neurological Surgery