The use of intraoperative echoencephalography

Glasauer, Franz E. M.D.
Schlagenhauff, Reinhold E. M.D.

From the Division of Neurosurgery and Department of Neurology, E. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, and State University of New York at Buffalo Medical School, Buffalo, New York

Dr. Glasauer's address is Division of Neurosurgery, Edward J. Meyer Memorial Hospital, 462 Grider Street, Buffalo, New York 14215.

Presented at the fourteenth annual scientific conference of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Oct. 6-10, 1969

Submitted for publication Nov. 6, 1969; accepted Jan. 26, 1970.

The authors wish to acknowledge the technical assistance of Miss Gail Kratzer.

Neurology 20(11):p 1103-1107, November 1970.

SUMMARY

Thirty selective patients were examined by transdural (26) and cortical (4) echoencephalography during craniotomies or trephinations. The results of this examination proved to be helpful in outlining the extent and depth of the lesion and in the selection of the site for the cortical incision.

The accuracy of the method was found to be sufficient and may improve with further experience and refinement of the technique.