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In this study, the details of the purely endoscopic subtemporal keyhole ATPA (eATPA) for petrous apex lesions are described and its initial results are reported.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Between May 2022 and May 2023, the authors performed eATPA in 10 patients with petrous apex lesions, of which 6 were meningiomas, 3 were trigeminal schwannomas, and 1 was epidermoid cyst. The surgical procedure of the purely eATPA is as follows. After a small temporal craniotomy, the endoscopic procedure is started. The anterior rim of the petrous bone and Meckel\u2019s cave are exposed via an intradural subtemporal approach. The lesion is removed with additional drilling of Kawase\u2019s triangle, cutting the superior petrosal sinus, opening Meckel\u2019s cave, and cutting the tentorium. The authors also compared the outcomes of mATPA versus eATPA for consecutive cases of petrous apex lesions.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>Gross-total resection was achieved in 8 of the 10 patients. The average operative time was 4 hours 13 minutes. There were 3 cases of transient abducens nerve palsy and 1 case of trochlear nerve palsy in the postoperative period. No new-onset motor deficits or CSF leakage was noted in any of these patients. Only 1 patient exhibited postoperative asymptomatic temporal lobe edema. The Karnofsky Performance Scale (KPS) scores remained unchanged or improved for all patients postoperatively. Compared with mATPA, eATPA achieved a similar extent of resection and comparable postoperative KPS scores with a significantly shorter mean operative time, much smaller temporal craniotomy, and thus less mean blood loss during surgery with lower rates of new-onset temporal lobe edema in the postoperative period.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>\n<jats:sec>\n<jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title>\n<jats:p>An eATPA allows a direct route to access Meckel\u2019s cave and posterior cranial fossa lesions similar to conventional mATPA, with shortening the operative time and reducing the risk of postoperative temporal lobe edema. This eATPA is considered one of the new surgical techniques that can be expected to develop in the future.<\/jats:p>\n<\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3171\/2024.1.jns231774","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,4,6]],"date-time":"2024-04-06T00:41:04Z","timestamp":1712364064000},"page":"752-761","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Purely endoscopic subtemporal keyhole anterior transpetrosal approach to access the petrous apex region: surgical techniques and early results"],"prefix":"10.3171","volume":"141","author":[{"given":"Hiroki","family":"Morisako","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tsuyoshi","family":"Sasaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Masaki","family":"Ikegami","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuta","family":"Tanoue","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Hiroki","family":"Ohata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sachin Ranganatha","family":"Goudihalli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Juan Carlos","family":"Fernandez-Miranda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kenji","family":"Ohata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Takeo","family":"Goto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Neurosurgery, Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka, Japan; and"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1754","reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"b1","series-title":"Neurosurgery","first-page":"510","article-title":"Petrosal approach for petroclival meningiomas","volume":"22","author":"Al-Mefty O","year":"1988","unstructured":"Al-Mefty O, Fox JL, Smith RR. 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