PMID: 11912535Mar 26, 2002Paper

Interventional MR-guided neuroendoscopy: A new therapeutic option for children

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Bettina BalmerYasuhiro Yonekawa

Abstract

Neuroendoscopic treatment of hydrocephalic children is an established surgical modality. Open magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology introduces new imaging features that, in combination with endoscopy, seem particularly valuable for performing these operations. "Near" real-time production of MR images in 3 dimensions during the procedure allows real-time neuronavigation, thus, facilitating guidance of an endoscope. Additionally, intraoperative changes such as brain shift, effects of perforation, and drainage of cysts are shown during an ongoing procedure. The patency of cysts or fluid compartments inside the ventricular system can be controlled by intraoperative injection of diluted gadolinium into the cystic compartments. These new therapeutic options were applied in 2 hydrocephalic children with complex ventricular cysts: a 3-month-old girl with a large, septated arachnoidal cyst and internal hydrocephalus and a boy of 7 years, 2 months with congenital hydrocephalus and premature closure of the coronary sutures.

Citations

Nov 27, 2004·Child's Nervous System : ChNS : Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery·Amer F SamdaniPeter W Carmel
Apr 20, 2006·Journal of Neurosurgery·Michael SchulderPeter W Carmel
Sep 20, 2011·Child's Nervous System : ChNS : Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery·Nils H UlrichOliver Bozinov
Nov 3, 2009·Journal of Neurosurgery. Pediatrics·Ron LevyMark G Hamilton
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Mar 22, 2015·Child's Nervous System : ChNS : Official Journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery·Dimitrios Paraskevopoulos

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