Brain tumor surgery with the Toronto open magnetic resonance imaging system: Preliminary results for 36 patients and analysis of advantages, disadvantages, and future prospects

Neurosurgery

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 900-909

  Bernstein, Mark ^a   Al Anazi, Abdul Rahman ^a   Kucharczyk, Walter ^b   Manninen, Pirjo ^a   Bronskill, Michael ^b   Henkelman, Mark ^b  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brain tumor surgery; Image guidance; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TUMOR BIOPSY;

EID: 0034075702     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006123-200004000-00023     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Albert FK, Forsting M, Sartor K, Adams H, Kunze S: Early post-operative magnetic resonance imaging after resection of malignant glioma: Objective evaluation of residual tumor and its influence on regrowth and prognosis. Neurosurgery 34:45-61, 1994.
2. Berger MS, Deliganis AV, Dobbins J, Keles GE: The effect of extent of resection on recurrence in patients with low grade cerebral gliomas. Cancer 74:1784-1791, 1994.
3. Bernstein M, Parrent AG: Complications of CT-guided stereotactic biopsy of intra-axial brain lesions. J Neurosurg 81:165-168, 1994.
4. Black PM, Moriarty T, Alexander E III, Stieg P, Woodard EJ, Gleason PL, Martin CH, Kikinis R, Schwartz RB, Jolesz FA: Development and implementation of intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging and its neurosurgical applications. Neurosurgery 41:831-845, 1997.
5. Engle DJ, Lunsford LD: Brain tumor resection guided by intraoperative computed tomography. J Neurooncol 4:361-370, 1987.
6. Golfinos JG, Fitzpatrick BC, Smith LR, Spetzler RF: Clinical use of a frameless stereotactic arm: Results of 325 cases. J Neurosurg 83:197-205, 1995.
7. Gumprecht HT, Widenka DC, Lumenta CB: BrainLab Vector-Vision neuronavigation system: Technology and clinical experience in 131 cases. Neurosurgery 44:97-105, 1999.
8. Hall WA, Martin AJ, Liu H, Nussbaum ES, Maxwell RE, Truitt CL: Brain biopsy using high-field strength interventional magnetic resonance imaging. Neurosurgery 44:807-814, 1999.
9. Hammond MA, Ligon BL, El Souki R, Shi WM, Schomer DF, Sawaya R: Use of intraoperative ultrasound for localizing tumors and determining the extent of resection: A comparative study with magnetic resonance imaging. J Neurosurg 84:737-741, 1996.
10. Heilman CB, Shucart WA, Rebeiz EE: Endoscopic sphenoidotomy approach to the sella. Neurosurgery 41:602-607, 1997.
11. Hinks RS, Bronskill MJ, Kucharczyk W, Bernstein M, Collick BD, Henkelman RM: MR systems for image-guided therapy. J Magn Reson Imaging 8:19-25, 1998.
12. Jho H, Carrau RL: Endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal surgery: Experience with 50 patients. J Neurosurg 87:44-51, 1997.
13. Kucharczyk W, Bernstein M: Do the benefits of image-guidance in neurosurgery justify the costs: From stereotaxy to intra-operative MRI. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 18:1855-1859, 1998.
14. Philippon JH, Clemenceau SH, Fauchon FH, Foncin JF: Supratentorial low-grade astrocytomas in adults. Neurosurgery 32:554-559, 1993.
15. Soo TM, Bernstein M, Provias J, Tasker R, Lozano A, Guha A: Failed stereotactic biopsy in a series of 518 cases. Stereotact Funct Neurosurg 64:183-196, 1995.
16. Steinmeier R, Fahlbusch R, Ganslandt O, Nimsky C, Buchfelder M, Kaus M, Heigl T, Lenz G, Kuth R, Huk W: Intraoperative magnetic resonance imaging with the Magnetom open scanner: Concepts, neurosurgical indications, and procedures - A preliminary report. Neurosurgery 43:739-748, 1998.
17. Taylor MD, Bernstein M: Awake craniotomy with brain mapping as the routine surgical approach to treating patients with supratentorial intraaxial tumors: A prospective trial of 200 cases. J Neurosurg 90:35-41, 1999.
18. Tronnier VM, Wirtz CR, Knauth M, Lenz G, Pastyr O, Bonsanto MM, Albert FK, Kuth R, Staubert A, Schlegel W, Sartor K, Kunze S: Intraoperative diagnostic and interventional magnetic resonance imaging in neurosurgery. Neurosurgery 40:891-902, 1997.