Establishing a benchmark for complications using frame-based stereotactic surgery

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 278-287

  Lunsford, L Dade ^a,b,c   Niranjan, Ajay ^a,c   Khan, Aftab A ^a   Kondziolka, Douglas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AB Elekta ^*

Author keywords

Complications; Frameless stereotactic surgery; Stereotactic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; BIOPSY; BLEEDING; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN TUMOR; CRANIOTOMY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; EPILEPSY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; NEURONAVIGATION; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEIZURE; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; STROKE; SURGICAL INFECTION;

BENCHMARKING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPILEPSY; HEMATOMA; HUMANS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 47949112874     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000147636     Document Type: Article

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