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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Stereotactic surgery
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 surgery - List of case studies
- Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid with Multiple and Diffuse Nodular Secondarisms of the Pulmonary Parenchyma
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meningioma complicated by neurologic deficits following surgery, was diagnosed with progressive iodine-refractory metastatic papillary ... diplopia in all directions of vision. Oct 1994: Stereotactic radiosurgery using a Gamma Knife on recurrent meningioma located ...
- Cancer of Colon with Metastases
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directed therapy with radiofrequency ablation and stereotactic radiation, but unfortunately a repeat CT showed progressive ... (1n + 4/18) G2. Following surgery, by his own initiative, the patient had a PET scan which showed two ...
- Anaplastic Astrocytoma in the left temporal lobe
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On Jan, the patient underwent stereotactic surgery under sedation and local anesthesia to perform a biopsy of the ... neurological evaluation, NMR (brain), Chest X-ray, stereotactic surgery, biopsy of the detected lesion, Histological examination, ...
- Multirelapse Squamed Carcinoma of the Skin
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invasion, and extension into the orbital muscles. Stereotactic radiotherapy was administered to the orbital apex. Most recent MRI ... squamed carcinoma of the skin, removed through surgery + radiotherapy (critical threshold at the orbital apex) ... cell carcinoma in the parotid bed, adjuvant radiotherapy, Stereotactic radiotherapy, radiation-based treatment, palliative systemic ...