Dorsch N W
Department of Neurosurgery, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Neurosurgery. 1988 Dec;23(6):790-1. doi: 10.1227/00006123-198812000-00025.
The author explains his method of retracting the tentorial edge during the subtemporal approach to the distal basilar artery. A modification of the ligature makes it unnecessary to tie a knot at depth.