Catheter placement for Ommaya reservoirs with frameless surgical navigation: Technical note

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 101-105

  Greenfield, Jeffrey P ^a,b   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Frameless stereotaxy; Intrathecal chemotherapy; Ommaya reservoirs

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; FORAMEN OF MONRO; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROTOXICITY; OMMAYA RESERVOIR; OPERATION DURATION; PARENCHYMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 40349094916     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112431     Document Type: Article

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