Review: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MICROSCOPY IN NEUROSURGERY

Abstract

The use of microscopy during microsurgery had the greatest impact on the medical field in the late 20th century. Because early microscopes were only capable of making slow, unidirectional movements, they were inappropriate for neurosurgery, in which the operation always proceeds with various views of the target. Since then, extensive efforts by previous researchers have lead to step-by-step improvements in surgical microscopes. Most of the current surgical microscopes used in the field of neurosurgery adopt an electromagnetic locking system that locks and unlocks the directional and angular movement. Herein, we show the neurosurgical operative procedure, representative diseases encountered during neurosurgery and functions of current microscopes.