The role of endoscopic assisted microneurosurgery (image fusion technology) in the performance of neurosurgical procedures

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 191-196

  Kassam, Amin ^a,b   Horowitz, M ^a   Welch, W ^a   Sclabassi, R ^a   Carrau, R ^a   Snyderman, C ^a   Hirsch, B ^a  

^a PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneurysms; Endoscopy; Image fusion; Microsurgery; Tumors

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM; CHOROID PLEXUS PAPILLOMA; EPIDERMOID TUMOR; FACIAL NERVE SURGERY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; MICROSURGERY; NEUROENDOSCOPY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR CRANIAL FOSSA TUMOR; STEREOMICROSCOPY; SURGICAL MICROSCOPE;

ADULT; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CHOROID PLEXUS NEOPLASMS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAPILLOMA; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; VESTIBULOCOCHLEAR NERVE;

EID: 25844446097     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-870915     Document Type: Article

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