Another name for this type of surgery is frontotemporal craniotomy. Pterional craniotomy can be done to treat brain aneurysms, brain tumors, blood clots, epilepsy and arteriovenous malformations.

2023年4月13日 · Temporal: Part of your skull next to your eyes and in front of your ear. Parietal: The top-middle and upper back of your skull. Pterional (frontotemporal): The side of your skull, behind your temple. Orbitozygomatic: Part of your skull near your eye socket and cheek.

Sagittal oblique illustration (b) and three-dimensional volume rendering (c) demonstrate pterional (frontotemporal) craniotomy, the preferred approach for Circle of Willis aneurysms or cavernous sinus lesions.

In this article, we describe our technique for frontotemporal craniotomy using an osteotome to prevent cosmetic deformities, without making a keyhole. From January 1998 to December 2011, we performed frontotemporal craniotomy for tumor and aneurysm surgery in 1,393 patients (283 men and 1,110 women), ranging from 26 to 84 years of age.

2020年9月14日 · A pteronial craniotomy, or frontotemporal craniotomy, involves removing part of the pterion. Your surgeon makes an incision behind your hairline, letting them access numerous parts of the...

2020年11月7日 · The type of craniotomy is named depending on the skull bone, which is opened. Typical skull bones targeted for craniotomy include the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital bones. Depending on the location of the pathology to be addressed, supratentorial or infratentorial (posterior fossa) craniotomies can be utilized.

2022年10月28日 · If a craniotomy involves 2 contiguous regions of the skull, it is named for both regions (eg, frontotemporal craniotomy, also rendered as fronto-temporal craniotomy); if 3 regions are...

2020年1月1日 · The frontotemporal “pterional” approach is considered the workhorse of skull base approaches. This approach is used for temporal lobectomy in patients with medically intractable seizures, temporal lobe tumors, and vascular lesions.

A craniotomy is an operation where a part of the skull is removed in order to perform surgery on the brain [1]. If the removed part of bone is not put back, the operation is instead called a craniectomy, and the following surgery where the skull is reconstructed is called a cranioplasty [2].

The pterional or frontotemporal craniotomy is the workhorse of the supratentorial approaches. Because of its simplicity, flexibility, efficiency, and familiarity to neurosurgeons, this corridor is the most commonly used surgical route to lesions along the anterior and middle skull base.