[Diagnosis and treatment of jugular foramen neurinomas].
OBJECTIVE
To study the clinical features and treatments of jugular foramen neurinomas. The approximate approach and proper exposure regions of jugular foramen tumour were discussed in this paper.


METHODS
Fourteen cases of jugular foramen neurinomas were diagnosed by CT, MRI, DSA and 3D-CT reconstruction preoperatively. The tumours were resected by far lateral infra-temporal approach. The classification and relative operative approaches were discussed.


RESULTS
Among 14 patients, total removal were achieved in 8 cases, subtotal removal in 4 cases and partial removal in the other 2 cases. All patients got good recovering. No serious complications correlating the approaches occurred except one case of facial paralysis.


CONCLUSIONS
The far later infratentorial approach was suggested to be more suitable for surgery upon neurinomas of jugular foramen.
Cheng
Kan
K
Department of Neurosurgery, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai 200025, China. bhccn@sh163.net
Shen
Jian-kang
JK
Zhao
Wei-guo
WG
Hu
Bing-cheng
BC
Lin
Dong
D
Cai
Yu
Y
D000328:Adult; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008866:Microsurgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed