Technical note: preliminary surgical experience with a new implantable epicranial stimulation device for chronic focal cortex stimulation in drug-resistant epilepsy.

Purpose: This study is to report some preliminary surgical considerations and outcomes after the first implantations of a new and commercially available implantable epicranial stimulation device for focal epilepsy.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data from clinical notes. Outcome parameters were as follows: wound healing, surgery time, and adverse events.

Assessment of postoperative pain, dysesthesia, and weather sensitivity after pterional and temporal neurosurgical approaches.

Objective: Many neurosurgical approaches require incision of the temporal muscle (TM). Consequently, patients often report reduced opening of the mouth, facial asymmetry, numbness, and pain after lateral craniotomies. A systematic assessment of these postoperative subjective complaints is lacking in the literature.

Mastication after craniotomy: pilot assessment of postoperative oral health-related quality of life.

Background: Neurosurgical approaches to the brain often require the mobilization of the temporal muscle. Many patients complain of postoperative pain, atrophy, reduced mouth opening, and masticatory problems. Although the pterional, frontolateral-extended-pterional, and temporal craniotomies are the most frequently used approaches in neurosurgery, a systematic assessment of the postoperative oral health-related quality of life has never been performed so far.

Piezosurgery-A Safe Technique to Perform Lateral Suboccipital Craniotomy?

Background: Piezosurgery (PS) is a relatively new technique based on microvibrations generated by the piezoelectric effect. It selectively cuts bone tissue and preserves the surrounding soft tissue.

Objective: To evaluate the use of PS for performing lateral suboccipital craniotomy.

Piezosurgery in Modified Pterional Orbital Decompression Surgery in Graves Disease.

Objective: Piezosurgery uses microvibrations to selectively cut bone, preserving the adjacent soft tissue. The present study evaluated the use of piezosurgery for bone removal in orbital decompression surgery in Graves disease via a modified pterional approach.

Methods: A piezosurgical device (Piezosurgery medical) was used in 14 patients (20 orbits) with Graves disease who underwent orbital decompression surgery in additional to drills and rongeurs for bone removal of the lateral orbital wall and orbital roof.