Alberti O, Dorward N L, Kitchen N D, Thomas D G
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK.
Stereotact Funct Neurosurg. 1997;68(1-4 Pt 1):44-8. doi: 10.1159/000099901.
It is uncertain whether the use of image-guided surgery has an influence on operating time. We prospectively studied the time requirements which have to be invested for using image-guided surgery and performed a comparison of operating room times from 125 matched pairs of image-guided and conventional operations. Our study revealed that neuronavigation has to be regarded as time neutral in general neurosurgery, whereas in stereotactic surgery, namely biopsy retrival, a significant reduction of anaesthetic time can be achieved through the complete separation of imaging and operation in the frameless approach.
