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Minimally invasice neurosurgical approach to orbital tumor surgery

In order to minimize surgical invasivness we appiled eyebrow keyhole approach to orbital tumors. Using this approach the authors operated on 98 patients with different space-occupying lesions. The most frequent finding were haemangiomas 20/98 (20%), meningeomas 20/98 (20%) and neurinomas 14/92 (14%).Eyebrow keyhole approach (EKA) is a safe procedure with low rate of complications whewn performed by experienced orbital tumor surgeon.

Orbital tumors; Neurosurgery; Keyhole approach

Rad je prikazan kao oralna prezentacija na: 5th Congress of the Croatian Neurosurgical Socety and the Joint Meeting with the Congress of Neurosurgical Surgeons of America, September 2-5, 2008, Dubrovnik, Croatia