Open surgery for pontine hemorrhage: experience in 3 cases
Oyama, H.; Ikeda, A.; Inoue, S.; Iizuka, H.; Shibuya, M.
No Shinkei Geka. Neurological Surgery 27(4): 353-358
1999
ISSN/ISBN: 0301-2603 PMID: 10347851 Document Number: 505022
Experience in three pontine hemorrhage cases which were treated by open surgery is recorded here. They were operated on by trans-fourth ventricular, subtemporal transtentorial on retromastoid suboccipital approaches. The neurological symptom improved noticeably in one case who was operated on through the retromastoid suboccipital approach seven days after the onset. The pontine hemorrhage can even be cured with open surgery which is performed in the early stage and through the operative approach.