Microanatomical architecture of Dorello's canal and its clinical implications

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 2 SUPPL.1, 2007, Pages

  Özveren, Mehmet Faik ^a   Erol, Fatih Serhat ^b   Alkan, Alpay ^c   Kocak, Ayhan ^c   Önal, Cagatay ^c   Türe, Uǧur ^d  

^a ATATURK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c INONU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d YEDITEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Abducens nerve palsy; Magnetic resonance imaging; Petroclival region; Subarachnoid space

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE; ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ARCHITECTURE; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLIVUS; DORELLO CANAL; DURA MATER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; VERTEBRAL CANAL;

ABDUCENS NERVE; ABDUCENS NERVE DISEASES; ADULT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33846956782     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249229.89988.4D     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Arias MJ: Bilateral traumatic abducens nerve palsy without skull fracture and cervical spine fracture: Case report and review of the literature. Neurosurgery 16:232-234, 1985.
2. Barnhill JF: Surgical Anatomy of the Head and Neck. Baltimore, Williams Wood and Company, 1937, p 385.
3. Berlit P, Berg-Dammer E, Kuehne D: Abducens nerve palsy in spontaneous intracranial hypotension. Neurology 44:1552, 1994.
4. Black PM, Chapman PH: Transient abducens paresis after shunting for hydrocephalus: Report of two cases. J Neurosurg 55:467-469, 1981.
5. Brazis PW, Masdeu JC, Biller J: Localization in Clinical Neurology: The localization of lesions affecting the ocular motor system. Boston, Little, Brown and Company Inc., 1996, ed 3, pp 155-250.
6. Dattner B, Thomas EW: Bilateral abducens palsy following lumbar puncture. NY State J Med 41:1660-1662, 1941.
7. Day JD, Fukushima T, Giannotta SL: Microanatomical study of the extradural middle fossa approach to the petroclival and posterior cavernous sinus region: Description of the rhomboid construct. Neurosurgery 34:1009-1016, 1994.
8. Destrieux C, Velut S, Kakou MK, Lefrancq T, Arbeille B, Santini JJ: Anew concept in Dorello's canal microanatomy: The petroclival venous confluence. J Neurosurg 87:67-72, 1997.
9. Dolenc VV: Anatomy and Surgery of the Cavernous Sinus. New York, Springer-Verlag, 1989, pp 68-87.
10. Dorello P: Considerations about the cause of temporary abducens paralysis in inflammation of the middle ear [in Italian], in Ferreri G (ed): Attidella Clinica Oto-Rino-Laringoiatrica. Rome, Tipografia del Campidoglio, 1905, pp 209-217.
11. Fukushima T, Day JD, Hirahara K: Extradural total petrous apex resection with trigeminal translocation for improved exposure of the posterior cavernous sinus and petroclival region. Skull Base Surg 6:95-103, 1996.
12. Garcia-Albea E, Cabrera F, Tejeiro J, Jimenez-Jimenez FJ, Vaquero A: Delayed postexertional headache, intracranial hypotension and racket sports. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 55:975, 1992.
13. Gradenigo G: Abducens nerve palsy originated from otitis [in German]. Arch Ohren Nasen Kehlkopfheilkd 74:149-187, 1907.
14. Greenberg MS: Tumor, in Greenberg MS: Handbook of Neurosurgery. New York, Thieme, 2001, p 391.
15. Gruber W: Contributions to the anatomy of the sphenoid and temporal bones [in German], in Richter HE, Winter A (eds): Schmidt's Jahrbücher der In-Und Ausländischen: Gesammten Medicin: II. Anatomie und Physiologie. Leipzig, Verlag von Otto Wigand, 1859, p 40.
16. Hanson RA, Ghosh S, Gonzalez-Gomez I, Levy ML, Gilles FH: Abducens length and vulnerability? Neurology 62:33-36, 2004.
17. Hashimoto M, Ohtsuka K: Compressive lesions of the abducens nerve in the subarachnoid space disclosed by thin-slice magnetic resonance imaging. Ophthalmologica 212:188-189, 1998.
18. Heo JH, Bang OY, Choi SA: Pure motor hemiplegia with conjugate lateral gaze palsy in pontine lacunar infarction. Yonsei Med J 37:86-88, 1996.
19. Kawase T, Shiobara R, Toya S: Anterior transpetrosal-transtentorial approach for sphenopetroclival meningiomas: surgical method and results in 10 patients. Neurosugery 28:869-876, 1991.
20. Krist A, Barnett DW, Barrow DL, Bonner G: The blood supply of the intracavernous cranial nerves: an anatomic study. Neurosurgery 34:275-279, 1994.
21. Knox DL, Clark DB, Schuster FF: Benign VI nerve palsies in children. Pediatrics 40:560-564, 1967.
22. Lang J: Pori durales of Nn. III, IV, and VI [in German]. Verh Anat Ges 69:785-791, 1975.
23. Lang J: Skull Base and Related Structures: Atlas of Clinical Anatomy. Stuttgart, Schattauer, 1995, p 196.
24. Lazow SK, Izzo SR, Feinberg ME, Berger JR: Bilateral abducens nerve palsy secondary to maxillofacial trauma: Report of a case with proposed mechanism of injury. J Oral Maxillofac Surg 53:1197-1199, 1995.
25. Leblanc A: The Cranial Nerves: Anatomy, Imaging, Vascularisation. Berlin, Springer-Verlag, 1992, p 162.
26. Mamata Y, Muro I, Matsumae M, Komiya T, Toyama H, Tsugane R, Sato O: Magnetic resonance cisternography for visualization of intracisternal fine structures. J Neurosurg 88:670-678, 1998.
27. Matsuno H, Rhoton AL Jr, Peace D: Microsurgical anatomy of the posterior fossa cisterns. Neurosurgery 23:58-80, 1988.
28. Memis A, Memis A, Alper H, Calli C, Ozdamar N: Petrous apex mucocele: High resolution CT. Neuroradiology 36:632-633, 1994.
29. Miller EA, Savino PJ, Schatz NJ: Bilateral sixth-nerve palsy: A rare complication of water-soluble contrast myelography. Arch Ophthalmol 100:603-604, 1982.
30. Nathan H, Ouaknine G, Kosary IZ: The abducens nerve, anatomical variations in its course. J Neurosurg 41:561-566, 1974.
31. Okada Y, Shima T, Nishida M, Okita S: Large sixth nerve neuroma involving the prepontine region: Case report. Neurosurgery 40:608-610, 1997.
32. Ono K, Arai H, Endo T, Tsunoda A, Sato K, Sakai T, Makita J: Detailed MR imaging anatomy of the abducent nerve: evagination of CSF into Dorello's canal. Am J Neuroradiol 25:623-626, 2004.
33. Ozveren MF, Uchida K, Erol FS, Tiftikci MT, Cobanoglu B, Kawase T: Isolated abducens nerve paresis associated with incomplete Horner's syndrome caused by petrous apex fracture: Case report and anatomical study. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 41:494-498, 2001.
34. Ozveren MF, Uchida K, Tekdemir I, Cobanoglu B, Akdemir I, Kawase T, Deda H: Dural and arachnoid membranous protection of the abducens nerve at the petroclival region. Skull Base Surg 12:181-188, 2002.
35. Parkinson D: Bernard, Mitchell, Horner syndrome and others? Surg Neurol 11:221-223, 1979.
36. Piffer CR, Zorzetto NL: Course and relations of the abducens nerve. Anat Anz 147:42-46, 1980.
37. Robinson HM Jr: Abducens palsy (with subsequent recovery) following lumbar puncture. Amer J Syph Gonor Vener Dis 29:422-423, 1945.
38. Rucker CW: The causes of paralysis of the third, fourth and sixth cranial nerves. Am J Ophthalmol 61:1293-1298, 1966.
39. Sam B, Ozveren MF, Akdemir I, Topsakal C, Cobanoglu B, Baydar CL, Ulukan O: The mechanism of injury of the abducens nerve in severe head trauma: a postmortem study. Forensic Sci Int 140:25-32, 2004.
40. Takagi H, Miyasaka Y, Kuramae T, Ohwada T, Tsunoda M: Bilateral traumatic abducens nerve palsy without skull fracture or intracranial hematoma: A report of 3 cases and consideration of the mechanism of injury [in Japanese]. No Shinkei Geka 4:963-969, 1974.
41. Tsitsopoulos PD, Tsonidis CA, Pestas GP, Hadjiioannou PN, Njau SN, Anagnostopoulos IV: Microsurgical study of the Dorello's canal. Skull Base Surg 6:181-185, 1996.
42. Türe U, Seker A, Kurtkaya O, Pamir MN: Internal carotid plexus schwannoma of the cavernous sinus: case report. Neurosurgery 52:435-438, 2003.
43. Umansky F, Elidan J, Valarezo A: Dorello's canal: A microanatomical study. J Neurosurg 75:294-298, 1991.
44. Umansky F, Valarezo A, Elidan J: The microsurgical anatomy of the abducens nerve in its intracranial course. Laryngoscope 102:1285-1292, 1992.
45. Uzan M, Hanci M, Sarioglu AC, Kanyar MY, Bozkus H: Bilateral traumatic abducens nerve paralysis with cervical spine flexion injury. Eur Spine J 5:275-277, 1996.
46. Vail RL: Anatomical studies of Dorello's canal. Laryngoscope 32:569-575, 1922.
47. Von Overbekee JJ, Dujovny M, Dragovic L, Ausman JI: Anatomy of the sympathetic pathways in the carotid canal. Neurosurgery 29:838-844, 1991.
48. Weninger WJ, Muller GB: The parasellar region of human infants: Cavernous sinus topography and surgical approaches. J Neurosurg 90:484-490, 1999.
49. Yaşargil MG: The internal acoustic meatus and its meningeal layers: A microanatomical study. J Neurosurg 97:1191-1197, 2002 (comment).
50. Yilmaz M, Ozaras R, Mert A, Ozturk R, Tabak F: Abducent nerve palsy during treatment of brucellosis. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 105:218-220, 2003.
51. Yousry I, Camello S, Wiesman M, Schmid UD, Moriggl B, Bruckman H, Yousry AT: Detailed magnetic resonance imaging anatomy of the cisternal segment of the abducens nerve: Dorello's canal and neurovascular relationships and landmarks. J Neurosurg 91:276-283, 1999.
52. Zhang M, An PC: Liliequist's membrane is a fold of the arachnoid mater: Study using sheet plastination and scanning electron microscopy. Neurosurgery 47:902-909, 2000.
53. Ziyal IM, Bozkurt G, Bilginer B, Gulsen S, Ozcan OE: Abducens nerve palsy in a patient with a parasagittal meningioma. Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo) 46:98-100, 2006.
54. Ziyal IM, Ozcan OE, Deniz E, Bozkurt G, Ismailoglu O: Early improvement of bilateral abducens nerve palsies following surgery of an anterior communicating artery aneurysm. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 145:159-161, 2003.