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01.01.2012 | Letter to the Editor
An ideal microvascular decompression technique should be simple and safe
verfasst von:
Jun Zhong
Erschienen in:
Neurosurgical Review
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Ausgabe 1/2012
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Excerpt
I have read with great interest the recent paper of Masuoka et al. about a novel technique for microvascular decompression published in
Neurosurgical Review 2011 [
6]. The author provided a sling technique to transpose the culprit by means of stitching the offending artery to the tentorium or petrous dura. Regardless that several authors have reported the analogous retraction technique [
4,
8], this paper focused on the stitching point anatomically. Although it is an alternative to separate the neurovascular confliction, this technique is not good enough to be propagated for it has numerous drawbacks. …