Anterior endoscopic transcortical approach to a pineal region cavernous hemangioma

Abstract

A 57-year-old female presented with headache and dizziness for 3 months. Preoperative MRI revealed a lesion located at the pineal region and back side of the third ventricle, accompanied by hydrocephalus. The infratentorial supracerebellar approach may cause visuomotor, acousticomotor, and hearing disturbances. With the patient in a supine position, the authors used a frontal linear incision that was 3 cm anterior to the coronal suture and 2 cm away from the midline and an anterior endoscopic transcortical approach, which could achieve endoscopic third ventriculostomy, alleviating and preventing hydrocephalus due to postoperative adhesion and resection of the lesion at the same time. The pathological diagnosis was cavernous hemangioma.