Development and treatment of CSF fistula, post-operative headache, cerebellar ptosis in 62 patients who underwent posterior fossa cranioplasty or not following posterior fossa surgery

Authors : Can YALDIZ, Okan TÜRK, Burak TAHMAZOĞLU, Ömer Faruk ŞAHİN, Özgür BARAN, Adil Can KARAOĞLU, Mehmet Akif AMBARCIOĞLU, Mustafa KAYA, Davut CEYLAN

Pages : 141-149

Doi:10.31832/smj.1220796

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Publication Date : 2023-03-16

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Objective: The approaches in posterior fossa surgery are used for accessing various tumors and vascular lesions including neuro-glial tumors, vestibular Schwannomas, inclusion tumors, meningiomas. Materials and Methods: A total of 62 patients who underwent operation due to infra-tentorial intra-cranial mass lesion in Neuro-Surgery Clinic between 2014 and 2018 were included in the study. Result: The study was conducted with 62 patients of whom 61.3% insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=38); were males and 38.72% insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=24); were females between 2014 and 2018. While 33.9% insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=21); of the patients underwent cranioplasty, 66.1% insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(n=41); did not undergo cranioplasty. Conclusion: The preliminary study suggests that cranioplasty is useful for headache and cerebellar ectopy however insufficient for prevention of CNF fistula development.
Keywords : posterior fossa, kranioplasti, beyin omurilik sıvısı fistülü, amelliyat sonrası baş ağrısı, serebellar ptoz