Since April 2008 our patients have had a unique opportunity to be operated in a modern, highly specialized surgical suite which guarantees a more precise and detailed control of performing a surgery than ever before. The main difference from an ordinary operating room is that we can perform a magnetic resonance scan during surgical procedures. That allows our surgeons to have a much more precise control over the progress of surgical procedures and gives them information about what remains to be done. Magnetic resonance examination room is situated next to the operating room and patients are transported there on a special trolley based operating table and are brought back to the operating room after the MRI scan. New data from the magnetic resonance are sent to the navigation system in the operating room and provide useful information to neurosurgeons. This surgical method is called an “image-guided surgery”.
The operating room is intended primarily for patients with pituitary tumors, for patients with glial tumors and other vascular diseases of the brain. Patients with cardiostimulators cannot be operated here (these patients cannot undergo MRI examination).
