Anosmia after Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm Surgery: Comparison between the Anterior Interhemispheric and Basal Interhemispheric Approaches
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Neurosurgery
- Vol. 38 (2), 325-328
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00006123-199602000-00017
Abstract
THE OLFACTORY FUNCTION could be examined in 101 of 138 patients with anterior communicating artery aneurysms, whom we treated during a recent 6-year period. Among them, 49 patients underwent surgery by the anterior interhemispheric approach and 52 underwent surgery by the basal interhemispheric approach. Fifteen patients (31 %) exhibited anosmia after surgery by the anterior interhemispheric approach, whereas only one patient (1.9%) exhibited anosmia after surgery by the basal interhemispheric approach. Unilateral dural incision and unilateral brain retraction without elevation of the frontal lobe from the frontal base are important, because frontal lobe depression and elevation during surgery may injure the olfactory nerve.Keywords
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