Consider yourself in an unknown town and you lost your way. Ancient days it used to be celestial bodies like pole star to guide sailors. Modern days it is google maps and GPS technology. Similar is the situation, when a neurosurgeon enters brain. Earlier days crude guidelines like bony prominences were utilized to mark the extent and location of tumors.
But now science has given something more to these surgeons. The technology is known as NEURONAVIGATION. Using this technology, any neurosurgeon can precisely locate the tumor and extent of tumor and this gives added advantage and safety to surgical procedure like: Preventing wrong side surgery Minimal touching of normal brain, which in turn prevents post surgical neurological weakness or deficits. Minimizing surgical time Increasing precision of surgery Increasingly rates of clearance of the tumor It can be attached to operating…
