Insular gliomas and the role of intraoperative assistive technologies: results from a volumetry-based retrospective cohort

The use of novel assistive technologies (ie. intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring, neuronavigation, fluorescence-guided resection and tractography) for intraoperative guidance is a field under continuous debate in the current neurosurgical practice [1 –3]. Several studies published to date have addressed the validity of these techniques, but since some technologies require expensive equipment and prolong surgical time, more evidence is necessary to justify widespread use of such adjuncts.

Source: Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery - August 1, 2016 Category: Neurosurgery Authors: Breno Jos é Alencar Pires Barbosa, Artemisia Dimostheni, Manoel Jacobsen Teixeira, Marcos Tatagiba, Guilherme Lepski Source Type: research