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In principle, surgery of brain tumors is not included in stereotactic or functional neurosurgery. However, in some cases stereotactic technique may be employed for biopsy, destruction, or removal of brain tumors.
The neurosurgeon should not only know that the subject has a cerebral tumor, where the tumor is, but also what the nature of the tumor is, since the operability and future of the patient depend on it...Nothing can be of greater value to a neurosurgeon than the ability immediately to visualize from the gross appearances of a tumor what will be its histological nature. Too great emphasis cannot be laid on this. H. Cushing
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Kandel, E.I. (1989). Brain Tumors. In: Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0703-7_15
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