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Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Stereotactic surgery
Stereotactic surgery or stereotaxy (not to be confused with the virtuality concept of stereotaxy) is a minimally invasive form of surgical intervention which makes use of a three-dimensional coordinates system to locate small targets inside the body and to perform on them some action such as ablation, biopsy, lesion, injection, stimulation, implantation, radiosurgery (SRS) etc. "Stereotactic" in Greek (another accepted spelling is "stereotaxic") In theory, any organ system inside the body can be subjected to stereotactic surgery. Difficulties in setting up a reliable frame of reference (such as bone landmarks which bear a constant spatial relation to soft tissues), however, mean that its applications have been limited to brain surgery...
Stereotactic Radiosurgery - List of case studies
- Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid with Multiple and Diffuse Nodular Secondarisms of the Pulmonary Parenchyma
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consider to be the use and effectiveness of stereotaxic radiosurgery using a Gamma Knife on metastatic pulmonary lesions? ... diplopia in all directions of vision. Oct 1994: Stereotactic radiosurgery using a Gamma Knife on recurrent meningioma located ...
- Glioblastoma
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make sense in order to check the opportunity of a stereotactic radiotherapy. Medical ... to see radiation oncologist to see if stereotactic radiosurgery is an option if the recurrence if focal and small . ...
- Metastatic Heteroplasia of the Lung
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that are experienced in the application of stereotactic brain irradiation ("radio-surgery"). This additional ... antiglicemic treatment, platinum-based chemotherapy, stereotactic brain irradiation, radio-surgery, brain irradiation, chemotherapy ... antiglicemic treatment, platinum-based chemotherapy, stereotactic brain irradiation, radio-surgery, brain irradiation, chemotherapy ...