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Image Guided Craniotomy for Brain Tumor

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Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

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The application of technology to the surgical resection of intracranial tumors has involved a gradual accretion of instruments and instrument systems ever since such tumors were first successfully removed in the late nineteenth century. This background of gradual improvement has been punctuated by explosions of activity in specific areas that have greatly expanded the boundaries of neurosurgical practice. These include the invention of the bipolar cautery, the introduction of angiography and ventriculography for diagnosis, the advent of the intraoperative microscope, and the development in the 1970s and 1980s of computerized imaging systems such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The intracranial images that these modalities now provide offer a wealth of anatomical detail and delineate tumor location and tumor extent with precision. The gradual fusion of improved imaging with stereotactic localizers has yielded the latest such revolution, that of neuronavigation. This generic term covers a variety of systems designed to provide technical solutions to the basic problems of (1) Correlating a lesion seen on scan with the anatomical reality of the patient, (2) Obtaining a maximal resection of that lesion, while (3) Breaching normal brain tissue to the smallest degree compatible with an adequate resection.

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  1. Canadian Research Chair in Neuroscience (Tier 1), 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Andres M. Lozano (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery) (Professor of Surgery and RR Tasker Chair in Functional Neurosurgery University of Toronto Senior Scientist, Toronto Western Research Institute President, World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery)

  2. Houston Stereotactic Concepts, Inc., 2260 West Holcombe Boulevard Suite 309, Houston, Texas, 77030, USA

    Philip L. Gildenberg

  3. University of Toronto, 399 Bathurst St. WW 4-447, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 2S8, Canada

    Ronald R. Tasker

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McCutcheon, I.E. (2009). Image Guided Craniotomy for Brain Tumor. In: Lozano, A.M., Gildenberg, P.L., Tasker, R.R. (eds) Textbook of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69960-6_45

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