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http://www.rdmag.com/News/2011/05/Li...nsons-Surgery/
Simplifying Parkinson's surgery Univ. of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics has become the second academic medical center in the country where neurosurgeons can perform deep-brain stimulation (DBS) in an intra-operative MRI (iMRI) suite. The new operating suite allows neurosurgeons to perform faster and more accurate brain surgery while a real-time magnetic resonance image of the patient’s brain is displayed. For patients, the result is a quicker and more comfortable experience. Conventional DBS surgery, for treatment of conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, requires that patients be conscious during procedure. In general, the new technique should cut in half the six hours needed for the older type of surgery...
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