Robot-assisted transcerebellar stereotactic approach to the posterior fossa in pediatric patients: a technical note.

Journal: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery
Published Date: Sep 1, 2023

Abstract

PURPOSE: During the last decade, there has been renewed interest in stereotactic approaches to diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPGs) in children, due to the development of new concepts in molecular biology and management, and subsequent need for tissue sampling. Stereotactic frame-based and robot-assisted techniques are associated with reduced target error and have been incorporated into standard practice at our institution.

Authors

  • Andrea Di Rita
    Department of Neurosurgery, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy. andrea.dirita@meyer.it.
  • Matteo Lenge
    From the Neuroimaging of Epilepsy Laboratory (R.S.G., H.-M.L., B.C., S.-J.H., N.B., A.B.), Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Pediatric Neurology Unit and Laboratories (C.B., M.L., R.G.), Children's Hospital A. Meyer-University of Florence, Italy; Epilepsy Unit (F.D.) and Neuroradiology (L.D.), Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico C. Besta, Milan, Italy; Department of Neurology (V.C.M.C., F.C.), University of Campinas, Brazil; The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health and The University of Melbourne (M.S., G.J.), Victoria, Australia; Department of Pediatrics (D.V.S.), British Columbia Children's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada; Aix Marseille University (F.B.), INSERM UMR 1106, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes; Aix Marseille University (M.G.), CNRS, CRMBM UMR 7339, Marseille, France; Freiburg Epilepsy Center (A.S.-B., H.U.), Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany; Department of Neurology (K.H.C.), Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea; and Department of Neurology (R.E.H.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.
  • Giorgio Mantovani
    Department of Translational Medicine and for Romagna, Neurosurgery Unit, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
  • Simone Peraio
    Department of Neurosurgery, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy.
  • Luca Emanuele
    Neurosurgery Unit, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy.
  • Iacopo Sardi
    Neuroncology Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy.
  • Carla Fonte
    Neuroncology Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy.
  • Alice Noris
    Department of Neurosurgery, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy.
  • Chiara Spezzani
    University of Florence Medical School, Florence, Italy.
  • Flavio Giordano
    Department of Neurosurgery, Meyer Children's Hospital IRCCS, Florence, Italy.

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