Skull-fixated fiducial markers improve accuracy in staged frameless stereotactic epilepsy surgery in children: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 116-119

  Thompson, Eric M ^a   Anderson, Gregory J ^a   Roberts, Colin M ^b   Hunt, Matthew A ^c   Selden, Nathan R ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Epilepsy; Frameless; Stereotaxy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANATOMICAL CONCEPTS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; EPILEPTIC FOCUS; FEMALE; FRAMELESS STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGEON; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRANIOTOMY; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; FIDUCIAL MARKERS; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; NEURONAVIGATION; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL LOBE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TEMPORAL LOBE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79251575591     PISSN: 19330707     EISSN: 19330715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2010.10.PEDS10352     Document Type: Article

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