PORTR: Pre-Operative and Post-Recurrence Brain Tumor Registration

Pre-Operative Planning of Brain Tumor Resections

We present our concepts for pre-operative planning of brain tumor resections. The proposed system uses a combination of traditional and novel visualization techniques in order to support the surgeon during the planning process. A set of multimodal 2D and 3D views conveys the relation between the lesion and the various structures at risk and also depicts data uncertainty. To facilitate efficient...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Treatment

A new edition is most welcome. When the book appeared in 1937 it was well in advance of anything then in print. There is again a great deal of recent work assimilated into the body of the various chapters. Among the names of contributors are many new ones,some of which have been prominent in the journals during the last 8 years. We miss the name of Homans and his beautiful article on thrombosis...

Pre-operative stability of infantile esotropia and post-operative outcome.

PURPOSE To define the prevalence and time course of significant changes in angle of deviation during the first months after the diagnosis of infantile esotropia and to determine whether long-term alignment and sensory outcomes differ when surgical alignment is performed on infants with stable vs unstable angles of deviation. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS setting: Institutional an...

Pre-Operative and Post-Operative Care of Surgical Patients

Surgery in the aged: pre-operative and post-operative care.

Demographic Trends NEARLY half the patients admitted to general wards of hospitals today are over the age of 60 (Lancet, I963); the average age of patients admitted to Geriatric Units varies between 75 and 80, and in the Sunderland Geriatric Unit over onethird of all the admissions are over 80 years. The number of operations performed on patients of 60 and over (excluding orthopaedic and urolog...