Intraoperative MRI versus intraoperative ultrasound in pediatric brain tumor surgery: is expensive better than cheap? A review of the literature.
Carlo Giorgio GiussaniAndrea TrezzaVittorio RicciutiAndrea Di CristoforiAndrea HeldValeria IsellaMaura MassiminoPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2022)
The analysis of the available literature demonstrates that expensive equipment does not always mean better. In fact, for the majority of pediatric brain tumors, iOUS is comparable to iMRI in estimating the EOR.