Abstract. We aim at reconstructing superficial vessels of the brain. Ultimately, they will serve to guide the deformation methods to compensate for the brain shift. A pipeline for three-dimensional (3-D) vessel reconstruction using three mono-complementary metal-oxide semiconductor cameras has been developed. Vessel centerlines are manually selected in the images. Using the properties of the Hessian matrix, the centerline points are assigned direction information. For correspondence matching, a combination of methods was used. The process starts with epipolar and spatial coherence constraints (geometrical constraints), followed by relaxation labeling and an iterative filtering where the 3-D points are compared to surfaces obtained using the thin-plate spline with decreasing relaxation parameter. Finally, the points are shifted to their local centroid position. Evaluation in virtual, phantom, and experimental images, including intraoperative data from patient experiments, shows that, with appropriate camera positions, the error estimates (root-mean square error and mean error) are ∼1 mm.
Pseudomeningocoele is a recognised complication of spinal surgery. It could be either asymptomatic or symptomatic. We present a 63-year-old male who developed a delayed pseudomeningocoele and symptomatic transdural herniation and strangulation of the cauda equinae following resection of a Myxopapillary ependymoma. He underwent successful operative re-exploration, un-tethering of the cauda equinae and re-closure of the dural defect with resolution of his symptoms. We discuss the clinical features, operative technical factors involved and the essential importance of neuroimaging with critical analysis of the imaging findings and correlation of the clinical symptoms, when such a diagnosis is being considered.
Abstract. We aim at reconstructing superficial vessels of the brain. Ultimately, they will serve to guide the deformation methods to compensate for the brain shift. A pipeline for three-dimensional (3-D) vessel reconstruction using three mono-complementary metal-oxide semiconductor cameras has been developed. Vessel centerlines are manually selected in the images. Using the properties of the Hessian matrix, the centerline points are assigned direction information. For correspondence matching, a combination of methods was used. The process starts with epipolar and spatial coherence constraints (geometrical constraints), followed by relaxation labeling and an iterative filtering where the 3-D points are compared to surfaces obtained using the thin-plate spline with decreasing relaxation parameter. Finally, the points are shifted to their local centroid position. Evaluation in virtual, phantom, and experimental images, including intraoperative data from patient experiments, shows that, with appropriate camera positions, the error estimates (root-mean square error and mean error) are ∼1 mm.
Background:Vascular injuries in transsphenoidal surgery for pituitary adenomas are uncommon but can result in serious disability or death.Case Description:A 46-year-old man, who underwent resection of a pituitary adenoma with suprasellar extension via a transsphenoidal approach, presented with massive epistaxis five days postoperatively. Angiography revealed an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) between the right sphenopalatine artery and a deep vein draining to the right internal jugular vein, as well as contrast agent extravasation at the fistula point. The AVF was catheterized and successfully occluded with N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate.Conclusions:Transsphenoidal pituitary surgery can be complicated by massive epistaxis from a lesion of a small branch of the external carotid artery. Airway protection through intubation and investigation with conventional digital subtraction angiography is recommended. The treatment of choice is endovascular embolization because it can be done immediately at the angiography suite.
Background:Effective management of a spinal dural arteriovenous fistula (SDAVF) can be accomplished with either microsurgery or endovascular embolization, but there is a consensus that in patients in whom a radiculomedullary artery supplying the anterior spinal artery (ASA) originates from the same feeding artery as the SDAVF, the endovascular approach is to be avoided.Case Description:The patient was a 46-year-old woman with progressive lower limb paraparesis, sensory deficit, and sphincter dysfunction. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and spinal angiography showed an SDAVF fed by a branch from the left second lumbar segmental artery, and the artery of Adamkiewicz (AA), a major ASA supplier, originating from the same segmental artery just proximal to the SDAVF. Microsurgical disconnection of the SDAVF was attempted, but failed. Embolization with cyanoacrylates was done in two occasions, the first time through a microcatheter placed just distal to the origin of the AA and the second time through another feeder coming from the same segmental artery that could not be visualized in the previous angiographies. All procedures were neurologically uncomplicated. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) 1 month after the last embolization showed resolution of the spinal cord edema. MRI scan taken 68 months after embolization revealed a slightly atrophic spinal cord with visible central canal and no recurrence of medullary edema. The patient presented good, but incomplete neurological improvement.Conclusion:Microsurgery is the first choice for an SDAVF branching off the same radiculomedullary artery supplying the ASA, but uncomplicated embolization can be feasible after failed surgery.
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