Clinical application of laser in oncological neurosurgery

Today laser has become a standard tool in modern minimal invasive microneurosurgery and it is being increasingly used in functional neurosurgery as well. Lasers have found their full and extensive application for their capacity of acting on pathological tissues without direct contact, through relatively small craniotomy, and in deep hardly accessible regions. In accordance with worldwide experience in successful use of laser power in neurosurgical procedures, in 1986 laser instruments were introduced into clinical practice at University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery, at Clinical Hospital Centre in Zagreb.