An encounter with stereotactic brain surgery

Neurosurgery

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1367-1373

  Heimburger, Robert F ^a  

^a Apartment G 25 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdalotomy; Dentatotomy; Electrical brain stimulation; Positive contrast ventriculography; Putamenotomy; Stereotactic brain surgery; Stereotactic brain surgery instrumentation

Indexed keywords

MEGLUMINE IOTALAMATE;

AMYGDALECTOMY; ANESTHESIA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN SURGERY; BRAIN VENTRICULOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; DENTATOTOMY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSURGERY; PUTAMENOTOMY; REVIEW; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BRAIN; BRAIN DISEASES; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 20044395972     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000160074.49530.5D     Document Type: Review

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