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Practical application of intraoperative ultrasound imaging

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Intraoperative real-time ultrasound imaging (US) was used in over 500 patients to investigate which of the previously considered applications are of practical use in everyday neurosurgery.

During all intraoperative applications for a wide variety of pathological conditions, small deep-seated as well as subcortically located lesions were detected with accuracy; in many instances they could be approached through smaller surgical exposures. US guidance was accurate in 209 cases for the stereotactic introduction of needles or endoscopes into various lesions: thus burrhole evacuation was performed on 148 intracerebral haematomas; in 16 patients endoscopic biopsy and resection of ventricular tumours was performed as well as biopsies of 39 hemispheric brain tumours and aspiration of a brain abscess in 6 instances. Seventy six gliomas were investigated by US imaging; the frequently unclear boundary between tumour and surrounding oedema was not better visualized than with CT or MRI. Moreover, US imaging for the detection of residual tumour towards the end of operation was unreliable. Postoperative imaging through burrholes or other cranial defects was mostly of unacceptably low quality for therapeutic decision making.

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van Velthoven, V., Auer, L.M. Practical application of intraoperative ultrasound imaging. Acta neurochir 105, 5–13 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01664851

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