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The
Modern Brain Tumor Operating Room: from Standard Essentials to Current
State-of-the-Art
Gene H. Barnett, Narendra Nathoo
Brain Tumor Institute and Department of
Neurosurgery, The Taussig Cancer Center, The Cleveland Clinic,
Cleveland, OH, USA
It
is just over a century since successful brain tumor resection.
Since then the diagnosis, imaging, and management of brain tumors have
improved, in large part due to technological advances.
Similarly, the operating room (OR) for brain tumor surgery has
increased in complexity and specificity with multiple forms of
equipment now considered necessary as technical adjuncts.
It is evident that the theme of minimalism in combination with
advanced image-guidance techniques and a cohort of sophisticated
technologies (e.g., robotics and nanotechnology) will drive changes in
the current OR environment for the foreseeable future.
In this report we describe what may be regarded today as standard
essentials in an operating room for the surgical management of brain
tumors and what we believe to be the current ‘state-of-the-art’
brain tumor OR.
Also, we speculate on the additional capabilities of the brain tumor
OR of the near future.
Keywords: brain
tumor, future, image guidance surgery, operating room
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2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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Source: http://ipsapp007.kluweronline.com/IPS/content/ext/x/J/5042/I/124/A/2/abstract.htm
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