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Lateral Approach to the Cervical Spine to Manage Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy and Radiculopathy
Background: The cervical lateral approach can enlarge the spinal canal and foramen to achieve an effective neural decompression without needing spine stabilization. For this review, the authors’ main objective...
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Open AccessSurgical management of anterior clinoidal meningiomas: consensus statement on behalf of the EANS skull base section
The optimal management of clinoidal meningiomas (CMs) continues to be debated.
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Petroclival meningiomas: update of current treatment and consensus by the EANS skull base section
The optimal management of petroclival meningiomas (PCMs) continues to be debated along with several controversies that persist.
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Introduction to Resilience-Based Design (RBD)
The chapter is presenting a holistic framework for defining and measuring disaster resilience for a community at various scales. Seven dimensions characterizing community functionality have been identified and...
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Cough-induced rupture of the right diaphragm and abdominal herniation
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Embryology of the cervical spine and cranio-vertebral junction
During gastrulation, the primitive node (Hensen’s node) gives rise to the notochordal process, which elongates progressively during the backward step of the primitive node. This process takes part during embry...
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Anatomical variations
Numerous anatomical variations of the vertebral artery (VA) have been reported in the literature. Most of the time, these variations are not clinically relevant. However, having their knowledge is especially i...
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Oblique corpectomy
The technique of oblique corpectomy has been reported for the first time in 1993 to access lesions developed in the anterior part of the spinal canal (1). Since 1992, the technique of multilevel oblique corpec...
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Surgical technique for the resection of tumors in relation with the V3 and V4 segments of the vertebral artery
The technique for the resection of pathologies related to the V3 and V4 segments of the vertebral artery (VA) is discussed together because it is related to lesions located at the craniocervical junction (CCJ)...
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The juxtacondylar approach to the jugular foramen
The resection of jugular foramen (JF) tumors is always challenging for several reasons. First, access to the JF region is difficult. Indeed, it is a deep-seated hiatus located between the temporal and occipita...
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Embryology of the vertebral artery
The development of the cerebral arteries is a continuous and adaptative process of vascularization to changes in the shape, size and metabolism of the brain. It is a mechanism of reciprocal interactions in whi...
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The lateral approach to the V2 segment of the vertebral artery
This chapter focuses on the step-by-step lateral approach to the cervical vertebral artery (VA) V2 segment or transversary segment. This segment starts usually at the transverse process of C6 and extends up to...
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The selective microforaminotomy
Cervical radiculopathy is a common medical problem.After failure of a well-conducted conservative program and after identification of a nerve root conflict on imaging, surgery becomes the better treatment for ...
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Compression by the vertebral artery
Apart from the cranial nerve vascular compression syndromes with the trigeminal nerve, the facial nerve, and the glossopharyngeal and vagus nerves by the vertebral artery (VA) and its branches resulting in tri...
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Surgical approaches to the V3 segment of the vertebral artery
The vertebral artery (VA) V3 segment, or suboccipital segment, is located between the C2 transverse process and the dura mater at the level of the foramen magnum (FM) (1–4). This chapter focuses on the two bas...
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Complications of surgery around the vertebral artery and their management
Surgical exposure and control of the vertebral artery (VA) may lead to different complications, which may be divided in the following two main groups:
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The lateral approach to the V1 segment of the vertebral artery
The first segment of the vertebral artery (VA), or VA V1 segment, also called ostial segment, is the proximal one originating at the subclavian artery and ending at the entrance in the C6 transverse foramen. T...
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Surgical technique for the resection of tumors in relation with the V1 and V2 segments of the vertebral artery
The vertebral arteries (VAs) run in the cervical soft tissues and are in contact at each cervical level with the vertebra, the intervertebral disc, the cervical nerve root, and surrounding soft tissues. Each o...
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Extrinsic compression of the vertebral artery
Extrinsic compression of the vertebral artery (VA) may be due to several different pathologies including osteophytes, fibrous bands, cervical trauma with extreme rotation or dislocation, nerves and bony malfor...
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Acoustic wave attenuation in a rough-walled waveguide filled with a dissipative fluid
The aim of this work is to analyze the behaviour of the acoustic pressure field in fluid-filled waveguides having small irregularities on the walls. In a previous publication [J. Sound Vib. (2008), doi 10.1016...
