Intraoperative ultrasound diagnosis radical removal of brain tumor

For the first time in our country carried out intraoperative ultrasound monitoring of 116 patients with formations of the brain, who was hospitalized in the neurosurgical department of the Russian Scientific Center of Surgery named. acad. B.V. Petrovsky RAMS during the period April 2007 to March 2010. In the study developed a set of ultrasonic differential diagnostic criteria for resection cavity for the presence of residual tumor tissue. All intraoperative data were compared with results of pre-and postoperative MRI, and histological examination of the material. Proved that a complex intraoperative ultrasound with application of modern modes of image processing is a highly informative method for assessing the efficacy of the treatment procedures.