Frameless robotically targeted stereotactic brain biopsy: Feasibility, diagnostic yield, and safety - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1002-1006

  Bekelis, Kimon ^a   Radwan, Tarek A ^a   Desai, Atman ^a   Roberts, David W ^a,b  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic and operative techniques; Frameless brain biopsy; Neuronavigation; Oncology; Robotics; Stereotaxy; Tumor

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN BIOPSY; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMYELINATING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GLIOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOMA; MALE; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ROBOTICS; SCALP; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; VASCULITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRAIN; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN DISEASES; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; ENCEPHALITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROIMAGING; NEURONAVIGATION; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ROBOTICS; SAFETY;

EID: 84860709202     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.1.JNS111746     Document Type: Article

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