Stereotactic neurosurgery [Neurosurgery Wiki]

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=====Stereotactic neurosurgery======
In 1934 at the University of [[Basel]] under Eugen Ludwig, [[Josef Klingler]] developed a new method of dissection based on a freezing technique for brain tissue that eloquently revealed the [[white matter tract]]s. Klingler worked with anatomists, surgeons, and other scientists, and his models and dissections of white matter tracts remain arguably the most elegant ever created. He stressed 3-dimensional anatomic relationships and laid the foundation for defining mesial temporal, limbic, insular, and thalamic fiber and functional relationships and contributed to the potential of [[stereotactic neurosurgery]]
((Agrawal A, Kapfhammer JP, Kress A, Wichers H, Deep A, Feindel W, Sonntag VK,
Spetzler RF, Preul MC. Josef Klingler's models of white matter tracts: influences
on neuroanatomy, neurosurgery, and neuroimaging. Neurosurgery. 2011
Aug;69(2):238-52; discussion 252-4. doi: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318214ab79. PubMed
PMID: 21368687.)).
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Neurosurgical [[laser ablation]] is a relatively new but rapidly growing application of [[stereotactic neurosurgery]] that allows neurosurgeons to treat many previously untreatable conditions with the added benefit of shorter hospitalizations and recovery times.
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Robotic devices have recently been introduced in stereotactic neurosurgery in order to overcome the limitations of frame-based and frameless techniques in terms of accuracy and safety.

see [[Functional neurosurgery]]