Brain Cancer

MR imaging during brain surgery improves tumor removal

Published in Cancer Weekly, October 19th, 2004

A specially adapted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner can help physicians remove brain tumors and all of the residual cancer during one surgical procedure, according to a study. Using intraoperative MR-guidance, surgical strategy was changed in one out of four cases.

"Imaging during surgery provides intraoperative quality control. It presents valuable information during the procedure that allows the surgeon an opportunity to adjust the strategy," said lead author Christopher Nimsky, MD, an associate professor at the University Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany.

The study results appear in the October 2004 issue of the journal...

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