Accuracy and clinical use of a novel aiming device for frameless stereotactic brain biopsy

Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 361-369

  Widmann, Gerlig ^a   Eisner, W ^a   Kovacs, P ^a   Fiegele, T ^a   Ortler, M ^a   Lang, T B ^a   Stoffner, R ^a   Bale, R ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Aiming device; Brain biopsy; Frameless stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTOMA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN BIOPSY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ENCEPHALITIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD IMMOBILIZATION; HEAD POSITION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEURONAVIGATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHANTOM; PHYSICAL MODEL; PUNCTURE; PUNCTURE LENGTH; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; SURGICAL AIMING DEVICE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ADULT; AGED; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BRAIN; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ANATOMIC; NEURONAVIGATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 57749187865     PISSN: 09467211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0028-1085424     Document Type: Article

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