Abstract
The difculty in the operation for basilar tip aneurysm is the restrictionin surgical working space. To resolve this problem, aggressive skull base surgery has been reported, but these techniques are not prevalent. Pterional and subtemporal approaches are commonly used for basilar tip aneurysms. In an attempt to increase the surgical working space during the pterional approach, the anterior clinoid process and the roof of the optic nerve were removed extradurally to increase the mobilization of the intracranial internal carotid artery and optic nerve. The effects of removing the anterior clinoid process and microanatomy in the perioptic area were analyzed by cadaveric procedures in 10 cases (20 sides). With this procedure, the internal carotid artery can be retractedmedially with a spatula 6.1±0.8mm (mean±SD). The length and the area of dural fold in the bone defect region in the optic canal roof are 2.1mm and 13.6mm2 . In 10 clinical cases, this procedure allowed enough space to approach the basilar tip aneurysm without disturbing the internal carotid artery blood flow. The clinical outcome was satisfactory.
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