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- Title
Trends and importance of radiosurgery for the development of functional neurosurgery.
- Authors
Kondziolka, Douglas; Flickinger, John C.; Niranjan, Ajay; Lunsford, L. Dade
- Abstract
Functional neurosurgery includes surgery conducted to ablate, augment, or modulate targets that lead to improvement in neurological function or behavior. Surgical approaches for this purpose include destructive lesioning with different mechanical or biologic agents or energy sources, non-destructive electrical modulation, and cellular or chemical augmentation. Our purpose was to review the role of stereotactic radiosurgery used for functional indications and to discuss future applications and potential techniques. Imaging and neurophysiological research will enable surgeons to consider new targets and circuits that may be clinically important. Radiosurgery is one minimal access approach to those targets.
- Subjects
RADIOSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; BRAIN imaging; TOMOGRAPHY; STEREOTAXIC techniques; DIAGNOSTIC imaging
- Publication
Surgical Neurology International, 2012, Vol 3, Issue 2, pS3
- ISSN
2229-5097
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/2152-7806.91604