Publications by authors named "Jardel Mendoca Nicacio"
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to compile and analyze published cases of intrinsic brainstem epidermoid cysts, focusing on their characteristics and treatment methods, especially in pediatric patients.
- Researchers reviewed existing literature and presented a case of a 1.5-year-old boy who underwent successful gross total resection of a cyst discovered incidentally.
- Results showed 21 patients (10 boys, 11 girls) with an average age of 4.85 years, experiencing symptoms like cranial nerve palsy (71.4%) and headache (52.38%), highlighting the need for careful surgical approaches to maximize lesion removal while preserving function.
Objective: In this article, we describe a new safe entry point for the posterolateral pons.
Methods: To show the adjacent anatomy and measure the part of the interpeduncular sulcus that can be safely accessed, we first performed a review of the literature regarding the pons anatomy and its surgical approaches. Thereafter, 1 human cadaveric head and 15 (30 sides) human brainstems with attached cerebellums were bilaterally dissected with the fiber microdissection technique.