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What is minimally invasive? There are many answers: for example less operation time, less blood loss, less damage to the brain, nerves and blood vessels and safety. I think the concept of minimally invasive neurosurgery is less complications and maximum efforts. Surgeons should evaluate the grade of complications preoperatively. High grade complications are death, consciousness disturbance, dementia, aphasia and hemiparesis. Medium grade complications are cranial nerve palsies. Low grade complications are cosmetic problems. In order to minimize major complications, we must avoid vascular injury first [1].
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Ohnishi, H. et al. (2006). Retrocarotid Infracommunicating Approach for Parasellar and Interpedunclar Tumors. In: Kanno, T., Kato, Y. (eds) Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery and Multidisciplinary Neurotraumatology. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-28576-8_16
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