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10370716

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-7-27
pubmed:abstractText
Since 1910, when Lespinasse [73] in Chicago was the first surgeon to use an endoscopic device for the treatment of a neurologic disease, various methods of endoscopy have evolved into accepted diagnostic and therapeutic adjuncts of modern neurosurgery. Nevertheless, until recently technical shortcomings of the available endoscopes have prevented the widespread use of neuroendoscopy. However, now, at the end of the 20th century, endoscopes can be regarded as some of the most important instruments for the development of microneurosurgery into the 3rd millennium. The aim of this review of intracranial endoscopy in neurosurgery, which admittedly might not be completely objective in the authors' personal assessment of various endoscopic techniques, is first to depict the historical evolution of neuroendoscopy, second to describe the technical equipment used in intracranial endoscopic neurosurgery, third to characterize the most frequent endoscopic methods in brain surgery, and fourth to indicate how neuroendoscopy might develop in the near future. It will be shown that this ongoing evolutionary process in neuroendoscopy was only possible with the mutual influence of improved diagnostic techniques, increased microanatomical knowledge, refined neurosurgical instrumentation--especially the introduction of the surgical microscope, and endoscopic diagnostic and therapeutic strategies.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0095-4829
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
25
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
21-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2005-11-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Intracranial endoscopy.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Neurosurgery, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review