Title
Pig as a large animal model for posterior fossa surgery in oto-neurosurgery: A cadaveric study
Date Issued
01 February 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Sorbonne Université
Publisher(s)
Public Library of Science
Abstract
This study proposes a practical model for a new approach to the posterior fossa in common domestic pigs. Several surgical procedures can be simulated in the nonliving pig model, including soft tissue dissection, drilling of temporal bone, dural incision, access to the cerebellopontine angle, exposure of cranial nerves and drilling of the internal auditory canal. The pig model perfectly simulates standard otological and neurosurgical procedures, and we highlight the feasibility of our approach for further experiments in a living pig model with the possibility of reproducing the model for research on cranial nerves in pigs to study their electrophysiological behavior.
Volume
14
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Cirugía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062090074
PubMed ID
Source
PLoS ONE
Resource of which it is part
PLoS ONE
Source funding
Ministry of Scientific Research, Egypt
Sponsor(s)
This work was supported by the Ministry of higher education, Mission sector, Egypt (http:// www.mohe-casm.edu.eg) and the Ministry of Scientific Research, Egypt to ME. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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