Background: The identification of small lung nodules is challenging during mini-invasive thoracic surgery. Unable to palpate them directly, surgeons have developed several methods preoperatively localize pulmonary nodules, including the computed tomography-guided positioning coils or metallic landmarks (hook wire) bronchoscopic marking. Methods: We present a series patients scheduled for video-...

Malignant glioma is the most common type of primary central nervous system cancer. Gliomas are very difficult to completely resect due to their invasiveness. In the present study, we compared fluorescence-guided and standard bright-light resection of a human glioma orthotopically implanted in nude mice. U87 human glioma cells, expressing red fluorescent protein (RFP), were injected stereotactic...

[Purpose] Ultrasound-guided ilioinguinal/iliohypogastric (II/IH) nerve and transversus abdominis plane (TAP) blocks have been increasingly utilized in patients for perioperative analgesia. We conducted this meta-analysis to evaluate the clinical efficacy of ultrasound-guided II/IH nerve or TAP blocks for perioperative analgesia in patients undergoing open inguinal surgery. [Subjects and Methods...

After the introduction of MRI, new modalities facilitated the procedure of surgical planning to achieve the microsurgical goal and improve prognosis and quality of life in patients. Despite the variable applications of preoperative and intraoperative mapping and monitoring systems, several limitations and concerns are reported for every modality as well. In this issue of the IrJNS, we are delig...

BACKGROUND In the past decade, there has been a major drive towards clinical translation of optical and, in particular, fluorescence imaging in surgery. In surgical oncology, radical surgery is characterized by the absence of positive resection margins, a critical factor in improving prognosis. Fluorescence imaging provides the surgeon with reliable and real-time intraoperative feedback to iden...

This paper describes a model checking approach for robotic guided surgical interventions. The execution plan is modeled with a workflow editor as a petri net. The net is then analyzed for correct structure and syntax with XMLSchema. Petri nets allow checking for specific constraints, like soundness. Still the possibility to prove the net with runtime variables is missing. For this reason model ...

Image-Guided Surgery has become the standard of care in intracranial neurosurgery providing more exact resections while minimizing damage to healthy tissue. Moving that process to abdominal organs presents additional challenges in the form of image segmentation, image to physical space registration, organ motion and deformation. In this paper, we present methodologies and results for addressing...

Lymphadenectomy offers the only hope for cure when lymph nodes are involved. In gastric cancer, three approaches have been pursued to preoperatively predict node status in individual patients, modern radiological imaging techniques, sentinel node and technique that uses a computerized database of information to convert a large amount of information and experience to a treatment decision for an ...

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