Neuroanesthesia management of neurosurgery of brain stem tumor requiring neurophysiology monitoring in an iMRI OT setting.
This report describes a rare case of ventrally exophytic pontine glioma describing operative and neuroanesthesia management. The combination of intraoperative neuromonitoring was used. It constituted: Brain stem evoked responses/potentials, Motor EP: recording from cranial nerve supplied muscle, and Sensory EP: Medial/tibial. Excision of the tumor was done with intra-operative magnatic resonance imaging (iMRI), which is considered a new modality.
Department of Neurosurgery, King Fahd Medical City, PO Box - 59046, Riyadh - 115 25, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Abdulrahmam J
AJ
Sabbagh
Mahmoud
M
Al-Yamany
Reem F
RF
Bunyan
Mohamad S M
MS
Takrouri
Sabry Mohammed
SM
Radwan