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The authors describe their experience using vertebral artery sacrifice as an adjunctive surgical method to reduce the risk of inadvertent vertebral artery injury during surgical correction of pediatric craniocervical deformity.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Three patients underwent vertebral artery sacrifice for structural craniocervical pathologies (1 male, 2 females; ages 12, 14, and 3 years). One patient presented with basilar invagination odontogenic brainstem compression, and the other 2 patients presented with congenital cervical fusion. All patients underwent endovascular left vertebral artery sacrifice after passing balloon test occlusion.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>No adverse effects from the vertebral artery sacrifice were observed. At the last follow-ups (35, 30, and 32 months), all 3 patients had a satisfactory outcome with no adverse effects as a result of their sacrificed artery.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Endovascular vertebral artery sacrifice followed by skull base approaches can be used to effectively and safely treat craniocervical pathology from a variety of pediatric skeletal abnormalities.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2023.7.peds23140","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,9,30]],"date-time":"2023-09-30T06:01:50Z","timestamp":1696053710000},"page":"710-718","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Combined endovascular and skull base surgical management of pediatric craniocervical pathology: a case series"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"Jonathan P.","family":"Scoville","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Matthew C.","family":"Findlay","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Evan","family":"Joyce","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nikita","family":"Alexiades","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Elena","family":"Kurudza","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Taussky","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Douglas L.","family":"Brockmeyer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Clinical Neurosciences Center, and"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"suppl 1","key":"b1","series-title":"J Pediatr Neurosci","first-page":"S91","article-title":"Pediatric bony craniovertebral junction abnormalities: institutional experience of 10 years","volume":"6","author":"Kale SS","year":"2011","unstructured":"Kale SS, Ailawadhi P, Yerramneni VK,  Pediatric bony craniovertebral junction abnormalities: institutional experience of 10 years. 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