Image-Guided Neurosurgery: Clinical Applications of Surgical Navigation.

Gene H and Robert J. MacIunas David W. Roberts Barnett

ISBN 10: 1576260836 / ISBN 13: 9781576260838

Published by St. Louis, Quality Medical Publishing, 1998

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" Gebraucht - Gut Neurosurgeons: Stay Up to Date! Image-Guided Neurosurgery: Clinical Applications of Surgical Navigation A generation ago, computerized technology (CT, MRI, digital angiography) allowed neurosurgeons to peer inside their patients by non-surgical means, providing powerful new diagnostic tools. Realizing that such tools would be valuable for more than just examination, neurosurgeons devised equipment and techniques to use the spatial information from such images for guidance during surgery. Advances and refinements in the technology have provided neurosurgeons with truly interactive navigational information, such as location and orientation during surgical procedures, allowing them gain more accuracy in their procedures. Now these navigational systems are becoming commercially available. Image-Guided Neurosurgery isn t a \"gee-whiz\" overview of the technology. It is the first book to focus on the clinical applications that you can put to work immediately. The authors take a hands-on approach to selected problems and explain in detail (with generous illustrations) the best procedures for the situation. In addition, they discuss the economic impact of image-guided neurosurgery. Anyone on the neurosurgery staff will find this work to be an excellent source of information. Benefits Reduce your patients recovery time. Learn to use the technology to make optimal incisions. Broaden your skills and your practice with the procedures the media are promoting - and patients are demanding. Reduce your learning curve and master the eye-hand coordination that is so important in minimally invasive neurosurgery. Use the outcome data and socioeconomic information to help justify the purchase of a navigation system. About the Authors Gene H. Barnett, M.D., Department of Neurological Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation; David Roberts, M.D., Department of Neurological Surgery, Dartmouth Medical Center; and Robert Maciunas, M.D., Department of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University. All three are internationally recognized in the field of frameless stereotaxy (surgical navigation). Audience: Neurosurgeons, neurologists, and neurosurgery staff will benefit from this well-written and well-illustrated product. Contents (abridged) Fundamentals of Registration; Pitfalls; Strategies for Target and Trajectory Guidance; Surgical Navigation System Technologies; Minimal Access Craniotomy; Cerebral Metastatic Disease; Intracranial Gliomas; Intracranial Meningioma; Transsphenoidal Hypophysectomy; Vascular Malformations; Spinal Surgery; Epilepsy; Hydrocephalus; Skull-Based Neurosurgery; Brain Biopsy and Related Procedures; Cyberknife Radiosurgery; Definition of Functional Anatomy; Intraoperative MRI; Economic Impact of Interactive Surgical navigation One-Year Outcome Data After Resection of Malignant Glioma ".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Image-Guided Neurosurgery: Clinical Applications of Surgical Navigation.
• Publisher: St. Louis, Quality Medical Publishing
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1576260836
• ISBN 13: 9781576260838
• Binding: hard bound
• Condition: Gut

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Synopsis

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. Text focusing on demonstrating how to get the most from surgical navigation systems, showing how they are useful for selected clinical problems, and providing information on the clinical and economic results that may be expected when this technology is applied. Halftone and color illustrations. DNLM: Neurosurgical Procedures--methods.