Precision Medicine in Neurosurgery
A special issue of Journal of Personalized Medicine (ISSN 2075-4426). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Medicine, Cell, and Organism Physiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (25 September 2024) | Viewed by 1618
Special Issue Editors
Interests: spine surgery; spinal cord tumors; neuro-oncology; neurotraumatology; hydrocephalus; neuro-navigation; clinical informatics
Interests: neuro-oncology; spine surgery; functional neurosurgery; neurovascular conflicts; traumatic brain injury; hydrocephalus
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Dear Colleagues,
Precision medicine is an innovative approach for the prevention and treatment of diseases, which has the aim of identifying a tailored treatment for each patient at the right time. It uses different methodologies, such as big data collection, the various omics and pharmaco-omics, artificial intelligence, and the study of social and environmental factors. Furthermore, in precision medicine, all these data are integrated with preventive and population medicine.
Given the potential dramatic impact of neurosurgical diseases and treatments on patient quality of life and survival, neurosurgery has always been at the frontier of surgical research.
The personalized approach through precision medicine methods may significantly impact on different neurosurgical fields. For example, the integration of molecular information in brain tumor diagnosis and treatment and the study of genetic and biochemical factors in movement disorders, hydrocephalus, chronic pain, spinal degenerative and tumoral pathologies could significantly affect our understanding of the pathophysiology of diseases and improve the response to different neurosurgical treatments. Moreover, cutting-edge technologies and novel surgical instrumentation allow neurological surgeons to deliver effective treatments together with minimally invasive surgical approaches.
The aim of this Special Issue of the Journal of Precision Medicine is to collect outstanding original articles, reviews and communications highlighting innovative and personalized approaches to the diagnosis and surgical treatment of neurosurgical diseases.
Dr. Filippo Maria Polli
Dr. Nicola Montano
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- neurosurgery
- surgical techniques
- spine surgery
- neuro-oncology
- neurotraumatology
- functional neurosurgery
- traumatic brain injury
- spinal cord
- neuro-navigation
- neuroimaging
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