Robotic long-distance telementoring in neurosurgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 434-439

  Mendez, Ivar ^a,c   Hill, Ron ^a   Clarke, David ^a   Kolyvas, George ^b   Walling, Simon ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b SAINT JOHN REGIONAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Robotics; Surgical training; Telemedicine; Telementoring; Telesurgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER NETWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GLIOMA; HUMAN; LAMINECTOMY; MALE; MEDICAL EXPERT; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TELECOMMUNICATION; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIDEORECORDING;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; CAROTID STENOSIS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CRANIOTOMY; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS; LAMINECTOMY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MENINGEAL NEOPLASMS; MENINGIOMA; MENTORS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGERY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PILOT PROJECTS; REMOTE CONSULTATION; ROBOTICS; SPINAL STENOSIS; SUPRATENTORIAL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 14644417772     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000153928.51881.27     Document Type: Article

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