title: Modified three-dimensional skull base model with artificial dura mater, cranial nerves, and venous sinuses for training in skull base surgery: technical note.
abstract: Experience with dissection of the cavernous sinus and the temporal bone is essential for training in skull base surgery, but the opportunities for cadaver dissection are very limited. A modification of a commercially available prototype three-dimensional (3D) skull base model, made by a selective laser sintering method and incorporating surface details and inner bony structures such as the inner ear structures and air cells, is proposed to include artificial dura mater, cranial nerves, venous sinuses, and the internal carotid artery for such surgical training. The transpetrosal approach and epidural cavernous sinus surgery (Dolenc's technique) were performed on this modified model using a high speed drill or ultrasonic bone curette under an operating microscope. The model could be dissected in almost the same way as a real cadaver. The modified 3D skull base model provides a good educational tool for training in skull base surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Juntendo University Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni, Shizuoka, Japan. kmori@med-juntendo.jp
authors.forename: Kentaro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mori
authors.forename: Takuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Kazutaka
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: Hideaki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Yasuaki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakao
authors.forename: Keiichirou
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honma
mesh_terms: D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal; D003391:Cranial Nerves; D003392:Cranial Sinuses; D003399:Craniotomy / Q000193:education; D004210:Dissection; D004388:Dura Mater; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers; D008348:Manikins; D019635:Neurosurgical Procedures / Q000193:education*; D009757:Nylons; D011145:Polyvinyls; D012833:Siloxanes; D019291:Skull Base / Q000601:surgery*
chemical_list: D009757:Nylons; D011145:Polyvinyls; D012833:Siloxanes; C034183:vinyl polysiloxane