Preoperative planning and intraoperative navigation: Status quo and perspectives

✍ Scribed by Markus Hardenack; Norbert Bucher; Andreas Falk; Albrecht Harders

• Book ID: 102649600
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 841 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1092-9088
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0150(1998)3:4<153::aid-igs3>3.0.co;2-x

✦ Synopsis

An essential step in modern microneurosurgery involves preoperative planning of procedures. For difficult lesions neuronavigation is being used in conjunction with complex and detailed radiological investigations. This article shows how these examinations are used for computerized planning of surgical steps. Although planning and navigation are still two separate entities, the combination of the two may help in neurosurgery.