A new strategic neurosurgical planning tool for brainstem cavernous malformations using interactive computer graphics with multimodal fusion images: Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 78-88

  Kin, Taichi ^a   Nakatomi, Hirofumi ^a   Shojima, Masaaki ^a   Tanaka, Minoru ^a   Ino, Kenji ^b   Mori, Harushi ^b   Kunimatsu, Akira ^b   Oyama, Hiroshi ^a   Saito, Nobuhito ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brainstem cavernous malformation; Developmental venous anomaly; Fusion image; Interactive computer graphics; Vascular disorders

Indexed keywords

ABDUCENS NERVE PARALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANTERIOR TRANSPETROSAL APPROACH; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAINSTEM CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION; BRAINSTEM HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOTOMY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRAFACIAL TRIANGLE APPROACH; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHIC; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PONS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUBTEMPORAL APPROACH; SUPRAFACIAL TRIANGLE APPROACH; SURGICAL APPROACH; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THREE DIMENSIONAL ROTATIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDUCENS NERVE DISEASES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN STEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FACIAL NERVE DISEASES; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863477517     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2012.3.JNS111541     Document Type: Article

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