Surgery

New York University reports research in surgery

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, December 26th, 2008

"The object of this study was to identify characteristic preoperative angiographic and MR imaging features of safely resectable insular gliomas and describe the surgical techniques and postoperative clinical outcomes. Thirty-eight patients with insular gliomas underwent transsylvian resection between 1995 and 2007," scientists in the United States report.

"Patient demographics, presenting symptoms, pathological findings, and neurological outcomes were retrospectively reviewed. Preoperative MR imaging-defined tumor volumes were superimposed onto the preoperative stereotactic cerebral angiograms to determine whether the insular tumor was confined lateral to (Group 1) or...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2008-12-26)

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