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The authors report the role of the basal vein of Rosenthal (BVR) in the venous outflow pattern of the deep sylvian cistern.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>The authors analyzed 262 consecutive surgical cases involving sylvian fissure dissection from 2015 to 2017. Inclusion criteria were complete sylvian fissure dissection for the treatment of intracranial aneurysms. Exclusion criteria were giant size (aneurysm diameter &gt; 24 mm), meningitis, subarachnoid hemorrhage within the sylvian cistern, absence of 4D CT angiography, and previous surgery. Retrospective radiological and operative video reviews were carried out to assess the association between the superficial sylvian vein and the BVR. The authors analyzed the course of the BVR and the patterns of venous drainage of the sylvian cistern. The surgical difficulty of sylvian fissure dissection was rated by the authors to study the operative significance of the venous patterns encountered. Two clinical cases are described to illustrate the proposed BVR classification.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>A total of 97 patients met the selection criteria. The most frequent type of BVR was immature (diameter &lt; 0.5 mm, 68%). When the BVR was incompletely developed or absent (immature type), the deep sylvian veins drained through a middle sylvian vein in 70% of cases, requiring advanced sylvian fissure dissection techniques. However, when the BVR was completely developed (32%), the middle sylvian vein was found in a minority of cases (6%), which allowed for an unobstructed transsylvian corridor. Interrater and test-retest reliability of the surgical difficulty was greater than 0.9.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Preoperative assessment of the BVR anatomy is key to predict the deep sylvian venous pattern. The authors provide objective evidence supporting the reciprocal relationship between the type of BVR and the presence of a middle sylvian vein and the deep sylvian venous outflow. An immature BVR should alert the neurosurgeon of the high likelihood of finding a complex deep venous pattern, which may drive surgical planning.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2023.10.jns23881","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,1,6]],"date-time":"2024-01-06T04:04:18Z","timestamp":1704513858000},"page":"154-164","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Basal vein of Rosenthal classification: the key to venous outflow of the deep sylvian fissure"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"141","author":[{"given":"Arnau","family":"Benet","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; and"},{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Stroke Center, Sapporo Teishinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kosumo","family":"Noda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Stroke Center, Sapporo Teishinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nakao","family":"Ota","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Stroke Center, Sapporo Teishinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael T.","family":"Lawton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rokuya","family":"Tanikawa","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Stroke Center, Sapporo Teishinkai Hospital, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"6)(suppl 3","key":"b1","series-title":"Neurosurgery","first-page":"1361","article-title":"The pterional-transsylvian approach: an analytical study","volume":"62","author":"Figueiredo EG","year":"2008","unstructured":"Figueiredo EG, Deshmukh P, Zabramski JM, Preul MC, Crawford NR, Spetzler RF. 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