Minimally Invasive Surgery for Complex Neurosurgical Pathologies: Current Concepts and Innovative Thoughts
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Neurology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 3707
Special Issue Editors
Interests: brain tumors; endoscopic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; endoscopic endonasal; endoscopic transorbital; skull base surgery; combined endoscopic surgery; multiportal approaches
Interests: brain tumors; endoscopic surgery; minimally invasive surgery; endoscopic endonasal; endoscopic transorbital; skull base surgery; combined endoscopic surgery; multiportal approaches
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As physicians, we all strive for decreasing morbidity while achieving adequate treatment results for our patients. In this context, the introduction of minimally invasive surgery helps obtaining such outcomes by reducing unaffected tissue manipulation and, thus, hopefully diminishing morbidity.
The refinement of microsurgical and endoscopic procedures, as well as improvements in instrumentation, intraoperative imaging, neuronavigation systems and neurophysiological skills have represented a strong impulse in this evolutionary process, thus defining a global change in today’s neurosurgical practice. Currently, minimally invasive techniques and pathways are progressively offered to our patients, and used even in complex neurosurgical scenarios.
Based on these concepts, we are launching a novel Special Issue, “Minimally Invasive Surgery for Complex Neurosurgical Pathologies: Current Concepts and Innovative Thoughts”. The aim of this project is to recollect novel concepts and ideas nowadays implemented in different complex intracranial diseases, such as brain tumors and skull base lesions, as well as neurovascular pathologies.
This Special Issue’s driving force is the idea that, today, the management of neurosurgical patients requires not only the achievement of an appropriate surgical result, but also quality of life’s respect, as well as the aesthetic integrity of the affected person.
We look forward to receiving your novelty thoughts.
Dr. Alberto Di Somma
Dr. Joaquim Enseñat
Dr. Ramon Torné
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- brain tumors
- endoscopic surgery
- minimally invasive surgery
- endoscopic endonasal
- endoscopic transorbital
- skull base surgery
- neurovascular pathologies
- combined endoscopic surgery
- multiportal approaches
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