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Science of neurosurgery

Known as: Neurological Surgery, Neurosurgeries, Neurosurgery 
A surgical specialty concerned with the treatment of diseases and disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral and sympathetic nervous system.
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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Splash: A Software Tool for Stereotactic Planning of Recording Chamber Placement and Electrode Trajectories
While computer-aided planning of human neurosurgeries is becoming more and more common, animal researchers still largely rely on… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Optimizing outcomes with maximal surgical resection of malignant gliomas.
BACKGROUND Aggressive surgical resection of malignant gliomas is a controversial issue in neurosurgery. Studies with rigorous… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Five Years Experience with Gravitational Shunts in Chronic Hydrocephalus of Adults
Summary.Summary. Objective: Gravitational shunts for management of chronic hydrocephalus are supposed to avoid or at least to… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Computer-aided stereotactic functional neurosurgery enhanced by the use of the multiple brain atlas database
Introduces a computer-aided atlas-based functional neurosurgery methodology and describes NeuroPlanner, a software system which… 
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
TRANSPLANTATION IN HUMANS OF ENCAPSULATED XENOGENEIC CELLS WITHOUT IMMUNOSUPPRESSION: A PRELIMINARY REPORT
Keywords: Adrenal Medulla/cytology ; Animals ; Cattle ; Cell Transplantation/methods ; Humans ; Immune Tolerance ; Prostheses and… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
A universal system for interactive image-directed neurosurgery.
Stereotactic methods confer great accuracy to intracranial target localization, but require strict adherence to a complex program… 
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Influence of hydroxyethyl starch on coagulation in patients during the perioperative period.
The perioperative use of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) has been implicated as a possible cause of intracranial bleeding. The purpose… 
Review
1989
Review
1989
Neurosurgical treatment of persistent pain. Physiological and pathological mechanisms of human pain.
This is a Karger 'Publishing Highlights 1890-2015' title. A quarter of a century after the publication of Gybels and Sweet's… 
Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Current controversies in neurosurgery
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
Radiosensitization of brain tumor cells with a thymidine analogue (bromouridine).
T REATMENT of malignant brain tumors has been one of the biggest problems in neurosurgery. If surgical removal is not feasible… 
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