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Preserving cortical frontal bridging veins draining into the superior sagittal sinus is a factor of good neurological outcome in anterior interhemispheric transcallosal approaches, classically performed to reach intraventricular tumors. Challenging the idea that veins are utterly variable, we propose a statistical analysis of 100 selective cerebral angiographies to determine where to place the craniotomy in order to expose the most probable vein-free area. The mean distance to the first pre-coronal vein was 6.66 cm (± 1.73, 1.80 to 13.00) and to the first post-coronal vein 0.94 cm (± 0.92, 0 to 3.00) (p < 0.001). The probability of absence of bridging veins was 92.0% at 4 cm anterior to the coronal suture versus 37.5% at 1 cm and 12.5% at 2 cm posteriorly. The length of the surgical corridor (distance between the first pre-coronal and post-coronal vein) was 7.60 cm (± 1.72, 3.00 to 14.10). Overall, the ideal centering point of the craniotomy was 2.86 cm (± 1.08, − 0.65 to 6.50) ahead of the coronal suture. The mean number of veins within 6 cm behind the coronal suture was 8.47 (± 2.11, from 3 to 15) versus 0.530 (± 0.82, from 0 to 3) ahead of the coronal suture (p < 0.001). These findings support a purely pre-coronal 5 cm craniotomy for interhemispheric approaches.
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Aldea, S., Apra, C., Chauvet, D. et al. Interhemispheric transcallosal approach: going further based on the vascular anatomy. Neurosurg Rev 44, 2831–2835 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10143-021-01480-x
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