Single Burr-Hole Extended Transforaminal Approach for Concurrent Endoscopic Surgery in the Third Ventricle Posterior to the Foramen of Monro and Ventriculostomy: Clinical Series and Planning Steps.

Objective: For endoscopic surgery of third ventricular lesions posterior to the foramen of Monro that frequently require a third ventriculostomy during the same procedure, the extended transforaminal approach (ETFA) through the choroid fissure has been proposed. This study reports clinical results and provides anatomic background and guidelines for individual planning of a single burr-hole approach and a safe transchoroid entry zone.

Methods: A retrospective review was undertaken of 25 cases of concurrent third ventricle surgery and third ventriculostomy via ETFA.

Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome in a child born to consanguineous parents: new evidence for an autosomal-recessive pattern of inheritance?

Background: Gómez-López-Hernández syndrome is a rare genetic disease characterized by scalp alopecia with trigeminal anesthesia, brachycephaly or turribrachycephaly, midface retrusion, and rhombencephalosynapsis. We report the second case with this condition who presented with consanguineous parents.

Patient: This boy was evaluated shortly after birth because of suspected craniosynostosis.

Quantitative computed tomography and cranial burr holes: a model to evaluate the quality of cranial reconstruction in humans.

Current methods to evaluate the biologic development of bone grafts in human beings do not quantify results accurately. Cranial burr holes are standardized critical bone defects, and the differences between bone powder and bone grafts have been determined in numerous experimental studies. This study evaluated quantitative computed tomography (QCT) as a method to objectively measure cranial bone density after cranial reconstruction with autografts.

Central nervous system abnormalities in patients with oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum (Goldenhar syndrome).

Objective: To describe the central nervous system (CNS) alterations present in a sample of oculo-auriculo-vertebral spectrum (OAVS) patients, trying to correlate them with other clinical features.

Method: Seventeen patients with diagnosis of OAVS were evaluated. All presented radiological evaluation of the CNS, normal GTG-Banding karyotype and clinical features involving at least two from the four following areas: oro-cranio-facial, ocular, auricular and vertebral.