This volume offers a comprehensive discussion of the stereotactic frames, frameless systems, and radiosurgical procedures utilized in the treatment and control of movement and neurological disorders, Parkinson's disease, chronic pain, spasticity, tumours, epilepsy, and arteriovenous malformations.
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Intracranial stereotactic surgery - indications, Joseph C.T. Chen and Michael L.J. Apuzzo; stereotactic frames - technical considerations, Ashwini D. Sharan and David W. Andrews; stereotactic surgery with the radionics frame, Michael Schulder;stereotactic surgery with the Leksell frame, Deon Louw; stereotactic surgery with the Zamorano-Dujovny frame, Lucia Zamorano, Ramiro Perez de la Torre, and Fernando Diaz; stereotactic surgery with the Patil frame, Arun Angelo Patil; frameless stereotacticsystems - general considerations, Marshall T. Watson, Jr and Robert J. Maciunas; surgical navigation with the BrainLAB system, Sagi Harnof and Roberto Spiegelmann; surgical navigation with the voyager system, Gene H. Barnett; surgical navigation with theOMI system, William D. Tobler; surgical navigation with the StealthStation, Michael Schulder; stereotactic radiosurgery - indications and general technical considerations, Michael Schulder; stereotactic radiosurgery for benign tumours, Gerhard Pendl andOskar Schrottner; SRS - Gliomas, Jay S. Loeffler and Alan C. Hartford; stereotactic radiosurgery - arteriovenous malformations, Kelly D. Foote and William A. Friedman; stereotactic radiosurgery with the Gamma knife, Douglas Kondziolka, L. Dade Lunsford,and Todd P. Thompson; stereotactic radiosurgery with the X-knife system, David W. Andrews and M. Beverly Downes; stereotactic radiosurgery with the Linac scalpel, Sanford L. Meeks, John M. Buatti, Edward C. Pennington, Francis J. Bova, William A. Friedmanand Thomas H. Wagner; stereotactic radiosurgery with the BrainLab system, M. Raphael Pfeffer and Roberto Spiegelmann; shaped beam and intensity modulation radiosurgery, Antonio A. F. De Salles and Timothy Solberg; stereotactic radiosurgery with thecyberknife, Steven D. Chang, David P. Martin, and John R. Adler, Jr; movement disorders - indications, Ahmed Alkhani and Andres M. Lozano; technical considerations in movement disorders surgery, Philip Starr; intractable tremor - ablation versusstimulation, Emad N. Eskandar and G. Rees Cosgrove; Parkinsonism - ablation versus stimulation, Brian Rankin Payne and Roy A. E. Bakay; surgery for other movement disorders, Zvi Israel and Kim Burchiel; functional neurosurgery using the radionicsstereoplan system, James M. Schumacher; computer-assisted image-guided stereotaxis in movement disorder surgery, Paul House and Robert E. Gross; movement disorder surgery with the Leksell system, Ron L. Alterman; movement disorders surgery using theZamorano-Dujovny localizing system, Lucia Zamorano and Ramiro Perez de la Torre; functional radiosurgery with a Linac, Robert Smee; classification of pain, Zvi Israel and Kim Burchiel; percutaneous techniques for trigeminal neuralgia, Edward J. Zampella,Jeffrey A. Brown, and Hooman Azmi; percutaneous surgery for atypical facial pain, G. Robert Nugent; epidural spinal cord stimulation - indications and technique, Konstantin V. Slavin. (Part contents).
