Endoscopic transaqueductal stent placement for tumor-related aqueductal compression in pediatric patients: surgical consideration, technique, and results.

Purpose: Endoscopic transaqueductal stenting has become a well-accepted treatment option for a selected small subset of aqueductal stenosis-related obstructive hydrocephalus. However, transaqueductal stenting poses unique challenges and risks which requires critical consideration. This report discusses the clinical experiences with transaqueductal stenting for periaqueductal tumor-related aqueductal stenosis focusing on pediatric patients.

Image Quality and Related Outcomes of the ShuntScope-Guided Catheter Implantation in Adult Hydrocephalus: Experience of 63 Procedures.

Background:  Ventricular catheter (VC) placement in the selected subset of adult hydrocephalus can be highly challenging due to abnormal anatomical configuration or the need for trans-aqueductal stent placement. Transluminal endoscopy with the ShuntScope has been invented to increase the success rate of catheter placement. This study evaluates the image qualities of ShuntScope and related surgical outcomes in adults.

Image quality and related outcomes of the ShuntScope for catheter implantation in pediatric hydrocephalus-experience of 65 procedures.

Purpose: Ventricular catheter implantation in pediatric hydrocephalus can become a highly challenging task due to abnormal anatomical configuration or the need for trans-aqueductal stent placement. Transluminal endoscopy with the ShuntScope has been invented to increase the rate of successful catheter placements. This study aims to evaluate ShuntScope's image qualities and related surgical outcomes in the pediatric population.

Cerebral vasospasm after endoscopic fenestration of a temporal arachnoid cyst in a child-a case report and review of the literature.

Introduction: Intracranial arachnoid cysts (ACs) represent rare extra-axial CSF-containing lesions. Surgical management mainly depends on the cyst location and its size. Nevertheless, pure endoscopic fenestration represents a relatively straightforward and safe technique, and-in most cases-the treatment of choice for symptomatic intracranial ACs.

Intracranial multiple myeloma may imitate subdural hemorrhage: How to overcome diagnostic limitations and avoid errors in treatment.

Background: Although the diagnosis of subdural hematoma is usually straightforward, occasionally it may be erroneous, leading to mistakes in the treatment. For example, leptomeningeal malignancies, even in the absence of bleeding, may clinically and radiologically mimic subdural hemorrhage.

Objective: To stress the importance of not only intuitive thinking but also in analytic thinking in appropriate and accurate treatment strategies.