The Far-lateral approach is a versatile approach and is useful for a variety of lesions located ventrolateral to the brainstem and upper cervical cord. It allows adequate exposure with minimal retraction. Most of the [[foramen magnum meningioma]]s can be excised either without or with only partial resection of the [[condyle]]
((Mohammad HU, Vooturi S, Panigrahi M. Far lateral approach: Is condylar resection required? Neurol India. 2016 May-Jun;64(3):455-61. doi: 10.4103/0028-3886.181531. PMID: 27147153.)).
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Seoane et al 
((Seoane P, Kalb S, Clark J C et al.Far-lateral approach without drilling the [[occipital condyle]] for vertebral artery-posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysms. Neurosurgery. 2017;81(02):268–274.)) 
reported a surgical series using the far-lateral approach to PICA aneurysms without [[condylar resection]].