[Focus on peroperative ultrasonography].
Based on a personal experience of more than 70 intraoperative ultrasound examinations performed in the last 3 years, the authors discuss the present status of this technique in its various indications: insertion of ventricular catheters, intracranial surgery, neuroendoscopy, and spinal surgery. The material and techniques currently used are presented. Because of its simplicity, non-invasive character, and relative low-cost, intra-operative ultrasound is a technique easily incorporated in general neurosurgical practice, providing an alternative to stereotactic procedures in some cases.
Couillard
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Service de Neurochirurgie, Dhahran Health Center, Arabie Saoudite.
Karmi
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MZ
D002557:Cerebrospinal Fluid Shunts / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D009422:Nervous System Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D009493:Neurosurgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013122:Spinal Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional
Echographie per-opératoire. Mise au point.