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    Stereotactic surgery is a minimally invasive form of surgical intervention that makes use of a three-dimensional coordinate system to locate small targets...
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    targets in the brain that were not amenable to conventional surgery. The initial stereotactic instrument he conceived used probes and electrodes. The first...
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    Neurosurgery (redirect from Brain surgery)
    stereotactic surgery, surgical neuro-oncology, radiosurgery, neurovascular surgery, skull-base surgery, peripheral nerve and complex spinal surgery....
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  • by Elekta Instruments, Inc., a Swedish company which manufactures stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery equipment, based on the inventions of Leksell. It...
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  • and morphology. Image-guided surgery was originally developed for treatment of brain tumors using stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery that are guided...
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    JR (2015). "Techniques of Stereotactic Localization". In Chin LS, Regine WF (eds.). Principles and Practice of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. New York: Springer...
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  • Neuronavigation is recognized as the next evolutionary step of stereotactic surgery, a set of techniques that dates back to the early 1900s and that...
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    angioplasty and stereotactic surgery.[citation needed] "Open surgery" is any surgical procedure where the incision made is enough to allow the surgery to take...
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  • dependence by a method of ablating the nucleus accumbens with stereotactic surgery". Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. 81 (1–4): 96–104. doi:10.1159/000075111...
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  • drugs directly into a tumor. Stereotactic injection may also refer to the use of injections during stereotactic surgery to precisely target specific sites...
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    to similar targets in similar conditions in the field of ablative stereotactic surgery. DBS is FDA approved or has FDA device exemptions for treatment of...
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  • application of cranial stereotactic surgery to target regions of the amygdala for surgical destruction. While some studies have found stereotactic amygdalotomy...
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  • ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon.[page needed] Samii, Ali (2002). "Stereotactic Surgery". American Parkinson Disease Association. Archived from the original...
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  • refer to: Any of various stereotactic techniques or procedures: Stereotactic surgery, any of various minimally invasive surgery types that make use of a...
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    ISBN 978-0-340-70631-2. Chin L, Regine W, eds. (2008). Principles of Stereotactic Surgery. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-71069-3. Mayles P, Rosenwald JC...
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    blood vessels, avoiding invasive surgical procedures. Aspiration by stereotactic surgery or endoscopic drainage may be used in basal ganglia hemorrhages,...
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    inserted in one of the lateral ventricles of the brain, usually by stereotactic surgery, and then connected either to the right atrium of the heart or the...
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    before surgical removal of the tumor or the sample may be taken during surgery. Grading of the tumor sample is a method of classification that helps the...
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    for the opening of the knee joint. In 1933, he published the first stereotactic surgery in humans, for a method to treat trigeminal neuralgia by inserting...
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    form the bregma. The bregma is often used as a reference point for stereotactic surgery of the brain. It may be identified by blunt scraping of the surface...
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    at 3–6 months. In a third study, microelectrode mapping (guided stereotactic surgery on the subthalamic nucleus) was performed in eight patients with...
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  • therapy Laminectomy Laparoscopic surgery Lithotomy Lithotriptor Lobotomy Neovaginoplasty Radiosurgery Stereotactic surgery Vaginoplasty Xenotransplantation...
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    treatment is surgical excision. Two adjuvant therapeutic strategies are Stereotactic surgery (SRS) and fractionated convention radiotherapy (FCRT). Both are highly...
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  • Hospitals, Chennai. He was known for his pioneering techniques in stereotactic surgery and is an elected fellow of a number of science and medical academies...
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    further extended by months with stereotactic surgery. Several non-randomized studies have suggested that stereotactic surgery may provide a nearly equivalent...
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    to sudden hearing loss. CT of the head is also used in CT-guided stereotactic surgery and radiosurgery for treatment of intracranial tumors, arteriovenous...
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  • Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy to assist with the initial set-up and detect intrafraction patient motion throughout treatment. For stereotactic surgery...
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    with more aggressive chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Recently, stereotactic surgery has proven successful in treating small tumors that have been diagnosed...
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  • received recognition for her research and contributions to the field of stereotactic surgery. She is also a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of Madras...
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  • biopsies may be guided by computer and imaging in a stereotactic surgery procedure. A stereotactic biopsy is performed under local anesthesia or general...
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