Stereotaxic surgery in the treatment of brain tumors

Authors

  • Juan Guillermo Trigo Naranjo Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Jorge Abel Anoceto Díaz Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Keywords:

stereotaxic techniques, brain neoplasms

Abstract

In recent years Neurosurgery Specialists have seen a dramatic improvement in imaging techniques, which has led, in parallel, to the resurgence of stereotactic techniques. As a result of the coordinated effort of specialists in Neurosurgery, Oncology, Biology, Pathology, Radiotherapy, Physics, etc. . every day new data on the biological behavior of brain tumors are known, which envisions new standards of performance. Stereotaxic can be defined as the stereotactic location of a point in space and stereotactic surgery and specialty within the field of Neurosurgery, it uses an external apparatus for introducing a catheter or other instrument to a defined and specific purpose in the central nervous system. The stereotactic method for locating a point within the cranial cavity or the rachis and reach it in a precise and reproducible manner, to achieve this goal stereotactic techniques have been combined with the Radiology and today with imaging techniques: cerebral computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and digital techniques cerebral arteriography.

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Trigo Naranjo JG, Anoceto Díaz JA. Stereotaxic surgery in the treatment of brain tumors. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 1 [cited 2025 Jun. 28];8(1):110-4. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/45

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2014): January-March

Section

Letters to the Editor

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