Minimally invasive head holder to improve the performance of frameless stereotactic surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 373-377

  Bale, Reto J ^a   Vogele, Michael ^b   Freysinger, Wolfgang ^b   Gunkel, Andreas R ^b   Martin, Arno ^b   Bumm, Klaus ^b   Thumfart, Walter F ^b  

^a Second Department of Surgery   (Austria)

^b University ENT Department   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ear, nose, and throat; Frameless stereotaxy; Head fixation; Head holder; Registration device; Stereotaxy; Vogele Bale Hohner mouthpiece

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HEAD POSITION; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROSURGERY; PARANASAL SINUS DISEASE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMMOBILIZATION; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; INTUBATION, INTRATRACHEAL; MAXILLA; MOUTH; MOUTH PROTECTORS; NEUROSURGERY; OTOLARYNGOLOGY; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; POLYPS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VACUUM;

EID: 0030938762     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-199703000-00018     Document Type: Article

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