Diagnosis and treatment of jugular foramen neurinomas / 中华外科杂志

ABSTRACT

<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To study the clinical features and treatments of jugular foramen neurinomas. The approximate approach and proper exposure regions of jugular foramen tumour were discussed in this paper.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>Fourteen cases of jugular foramen neurinomas were diagnosed by CT, MRI, DSA and 3D-CT reconstruction preoperatively. The tumours were resected by far lateral infra-temporal approach. The classification and relative operative approaches were discussed.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>Among 14 patients, total removal were achieved in 8 cases, subtotal removal in 4 cases and partial removal in the other 2 cases. All patients got good recovering. No serious complications correlating the approaches occurred except one case of facial paralysis.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>The far later infratentorial approach was suggested to be more suitable for surgery upon neurinomas of jugular foramen.</p>