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Surgery for highly placed basilar bifurcation aneurysms is one of the most difficult operations in neurosurgery. Specific surgical techniques have been developed including the temporopolar, zygomatic, transzygomatic subtemporal, transclinoid trans-sellar transcavernous, and trans third ventricular approaches. The authors present some technical advances which have been developed for the transcristagalli translamina terminalis approach for the treatment of this aneurysm.
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Sano, H., Kato, Y., Hayakawa, M. et al. A transcrista galli, translamina terminalis approach for highly placed basilar bifurcation aneurysms. Acta neurochir 139, 1020–1025 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01411554
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