Transendoscopic Ultrasound for Neurosurgery

Neuroendoscopy has been a real revolution in the treatment of several disorders of the central nervous system. In the treatment of obstructive hydrocephalus and intracranial cystic lesions, above all, almost every surgeon has been somehow obliged to deal with the neuroendoscopic tools since the second half of the 1990s. The diffusion of the knowledge has been so rapid that the treatment of some welldefined conditions with techniques other than neuroendoscopy could now appear almost unnatural, especially to the younger generation of neurosurgeons who completed their training during the past 10 years...