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Endoscope-assisted Brain Surgery: Part 1—Evolution, Basic Concept, and Current Technique

1998

Rationale The evolution of neurosurgical techniques indicates the effort to reduce surgery-related traumatization of patients. The reduction of traumatization contributes to better postoperative outcomes. The improvement of diagnostic imaging techniques facilitates not only the precise localization of lesions but also the accurate determination of topographical relations of specific lesions to individual anatomic variations of intracranial structures. This precision of diagnostic imaging should be used to perform individual surgical procedures through so-called keyhole approaches. Keyhole craniotomies are afflicted with a reduction of light intensity in the depth of the operating field, and…

Microsurgerymedicine.medical_specialtyMicroscopeEndoscopemedicine.medical_treatmentNeurosurgerySurgical Equipmentlaw.inventionlawMedical IllustrationmedicineMedical imagingHumansProjection (set theory)Endoscopesbusiness.industryBrainEndoscopyEquipment DesignMiddle AgedMicrosurgerySurgeryLens (optics)Light intensityFemaleSurgeryNeurology (clinical)businessKeyholeNeurosurgery
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Intraoperative cryoablation of atrial fibrillation with the old-fashioned cryode tips: a simple, effective, and inexpensive method.

2006

Nowadays atrial fibrillation is usually treated simultaneously with cardiac procedures, and new cryo-systems have been developed for performing easier and faster intraoperative ablation. However, the old cryode designs can still be useful in surgical practice and represent a more cost-effective method. In this article we present a technique using old-fashioned cryodes for intraoperative treatment of atrial fibrillation and comment on its advantages and limitations.

Pulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMalemedicine.medical_specialtymedicine.medical_treatmentCost-Benefit AnalysisCatheter ablationmacromolecular substancesCryosurgeryRisk AssessmentCryosurgerySurgical EquipmentCardiac proceduresAtrial FibrillationmedicineSurgical equipmentHumansRetrospective StudiesIntraoperative Carebusiness.industryFollow up studiesCryoablationAtrial fibrillationEquipment DesignAblationmedicine.diseaseSurgeryTreatment OutcomeCatheter AblationSurgeryFemaleCardiology and Cardiovascular MedicinebusinessFollow-Up StudiesThe Annals of thoracic surgery
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Solitary Vestibular Schwannoma: Decision Making of Treatments

2012

Therapeutic strategies of vestibular schwannomas treatment are changed in the last years. The improvement of surgical equipments and skills allowed increasing the numbers of successful operations in the last 10 years. The results improved in terms of survival, quality of life, recurrences, facial nerve function, and hearing preservation. Also the age of operated patients, once a restriction, becomes progressively a relative limitation to surgical indication. However the progressive widening of MRI availability give to the Otoneurologist the possibility to follow-up the patients with a relative simple radiological examination, delaying the decision to treat surgically the neoplasm only in ca…

Vestibular systemmedicine.medical_specialtybusiness.industryGeneral surgerySchwannomaRadiological examinationmedicine.diseaseFacial nerveQuality of lifeVestibular Schwannomasotorhinolaryngologic diseasesmedicineSurgical equipmentFacial nerve functionbusiness
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