26.11.2021 | Letter to the editor
The mini-pterional approach and the atrophy of the temporal muscle
verfasst von:
Leonardo C. Welling, Nicollas Nunes Rabelo, Eberval G. Figueiredo
Erschienen in:
Neurosurgical Review
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Ausgabe 2/2022
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Excerpt
We read with great interest the article entitled
Comparison of postoperative temporalis muscle atrophy between the muscle-preserving pterional approach and the mini-pterional approach in the treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms, recently published by Tsunoda et al. [
2]. We congratulate the authors for this very well-written work that presents interesting results. The authors evaluated the occurrence of temporal muscle atrophy by comparing the modified pterional craniotomy (described by the authors) with the mini-pterional craniotomy (MPT) originally described by Figueiredo et al. [
1]. …