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Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
radio-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...
radio-surgery - List of case studies
- Glioblastoma
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short_summary: 55-year-old female was diagnosed with glioblastoma after suffering increasing headaches, and was treated with radiation with concurrent Temodal. MRI exam that was performed afte ...
- Metastatic Heteroplasia of the Lung
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the application of stereotactic brain irradiation ("radio-surgery"). This additional irradiation may contribute since: (a) ... chemotherapy, stereotactic brain irradiation, radio-surgery, brain irradiation, chemotherapy treatment, biological ... chemotherapy, stereotactic brain irradiation, radio-surgery, brain irradiation, chemotherapy treatment, biological ...
- Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid with Multiple and Diffuse Nodular Secondarisms of the Pulmonary Parenchyma
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short_title: Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid short_summary: 78-year-old female with history of diabetes, and ...