Individualized ventricular access using multi-plane brain images.

PURPOSE: Recently, many surgical techniques are applied to accurate ventricular catheterization. However, there are still some limitations in utilizing those methods. We introduce a simple method for the ventricular access and report two illustrative cases using our method.

METHODS

We marked the trajectory using the preoperative multi-planar brain images and verifying it with surface markers.

RESULTS

Two illustrative cases are shown, in which the surgeries were performed without difficulty and the outcomes were satisfactory.

CONCLUSION

Utilizing multi-planar brain images in ventricular access is cost-effective and competent method.