Supraorbital eyebrow approach: A single-center experience.

Background: Keyhole neurosurgery is the notion of safely removing brain and skull base lesions through smaller and more precise openings that lessen collateral damage to the surrounding scalp, brain, blood vessels, and nerves. The traditional frontal and pterional approaches require large craniotomies and this predisposes patients to significant and avoidable morbidity. With the growing expectation for minimally invasive surgery, we present our experience with the supraorbital keyhole craniotomy for surgical lesions in the anterior cranial fossa and parasellar regions.

Keyhole Approaches Applied to Clipping of Acutely Ruptured Intracerebral Aneurysms-A Technical Note and Case Series.

Background: Evolution of keyhole techniques in aneurysm surgery allows for definitive surgical management of aneurysmal pathology with little disruption of normal surrounding tissue. While experienced vascular neurosurgeons are increasingly applying keyhole techniques to unruptured aneurysms, experience with ruptured aneurysms is limited.

Objective: We sought to explore technical nuances and present operative outcomes for our series of 40 consecutive patients presenting with ruptured intracerebral aneurysms treated with surgical clipping via a keyhole approach.

Ruptured presentation of superficial temporal artery pseudoaneurysm treated with anastomotic repair: Case report.

Superficial temporal artery (STA) pseudoaneurysm is a very rare occurrence that usually presents as a pulsatile mass along the STA distribution following trauma or an iatrogenic cause. We report a case of STA pseudoaneurysm that developed in a 32 year old male following blunt trauma. Unfortunately, the pseudoaneurysm was missed and led to multiple hospital presentations that culminated in an acute bleeding episode.

First Report of Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasizing to the Clivus in a Pediatric Patient.

Background: The clivus is a rare site of tumor occurrence in general, and metastases to this site are especially rare. Renal cell carcinoma is an uncommon entity in the pediatric population. Although not infrequent in adults, when it does occur, metastases to the clivus are extremely uncommon, only having been reported 3 times in the literature.

Acalvaria - report of a case and discussion of the literature.

Acalvaria is a rare condition indeed, defined as the absence of the flat bones of the skull, as well as the associated muscles and dura, with, in some cases, normal skull base bones and normal brain structures. It has been reported as a fatal congenital condition, because of the failure of afflicted children to survive for extended periods. There have, however, been reports of extended survival.