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Stereotactic laser surgery for deep-seated brain tumors by open-system endoscopy
T Otsuki1, T Yoshimoto, H Jokura
1Division of Neurosurgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery
|January 1, 1990
Abstract:
A new approach for stereotactic laser surgery of deep-seated brain tumors using open-system endoscopy, i.e. employing a stereotactic guiding tube and fine endoscopes, is described. Accurate resection of intraaxial brain lesions with efficient hemostasis was achieved by CO2 and Nd:Yag laser irradiation under computed tomographic and magnetic resonance image guidance. Stereotactic endoscopic laser surgery is a promising new method for the treatment of deep-seated brain pathologies for which biopsy or irradiation had previously been the only treatment of choice.