1. Introduction

   • Hans Werner Pia
   • Shozo Ishii

   EditorialNotes Pages: 71 - 71

2. An improved neurosurgical system: New operating table, chair, microscope and other instrumentation

   • Shigeaki Kobayashi
   • Kenichiro Sugita
   • Koichi Matsuo

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 75 - 80

3. Operating tables and accessories for neurosurgical operations

   • Paul O. Peghini

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 81 - 84

4. Combined retractor and hand-rest system for neurosurgery

   • Joachim M. Gilsbach
   • Theodor Lutze
   • Wolfgang Seeger

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 85 - 87

5. Zeiss operating microscopes for neurosurgery

   • Cornelia Krampe

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 89 - 97

6. Möller UNIVERSAL operation unit

   • Friedrich Klein

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 99 - 102

7. Surgical operating microscopes, series M 600 from Wild Heerbrugg Ltd

   • Jürg Müntener

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 103 - 107

8. A new zoom illumination system for constant image brightness at all magnification in the surgical operating microscope

   • Bernd Forster

   I. Operating tables and operating microscopes Pages: 109 - 110

9. The SHARPLAN family of CO₂ lasers for surgery

   • Jacob Dagan

   II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 113 - 121

10. CO₂-Laser in neurosurgery

    • Peter Wolf Ascher
    • Fritz Heppner

    II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 123 - 133

11. The carbon dioxide laser surgical unit as an instrument for surgery of brain tumours — its advantages and disadvantages

    • Toshiaki Takizawa

    II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 135 - 144

12. Biophysical basis and technical requisites for the use of Nd-YAG laser in neurosurgery

    • Frank Frank

    II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 145 - 150

13. Use of the Nd-YAG laser in neurosurgery

    • Otto J. Beck

    II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 151 - 158

14. Nd-YAG laser as a surgical tool

    • Hajime Handa
    • Juji Takeuchi
    • Tatsuhito Yamagami

    II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 159 - 164

15. Extent of thermal penetration of Nd-YAG laser — histological considerations

    • Tatsuhito Yamagami
    • Hajime Handa
    • Hirokazu Otsuki

    II. Laser in neurosurgery Pages: 165 - 170

16. Ultrasonic aspiration in neurosurgery

    • Mario Brock
    • Ingo Ingwersen
    • Wolfgang Roggendorf

    III. Aspiration and suction Pages: 173 - 177

17. Efficient atraumatic liquid suction by means of slit suction tubes combined with a pressure control unit

    • Bertil Vällfors

    III. Aspiration and suction Pages: 179 - 182

18. Automatically controlled bipolar electrocoagulation — “COA-COMP”

    • Bertil Vällfors
    • Björn Bergdahl

    IV. Bipolar coagulation Pages: 185 - 189

19. Doppler techniques and neurosurgery

    • Alec Eden

    V. Intraoperative diagnostic techniques Pages: 193 - 197

20. Intraoperative doppler and real time sonography in neurosurgery

    • Joachim M. Gilsbach
    • Werner E. Hassler

    V. Intraoperative diagnostic techniques Pages: 199 - 208

21. Intraoperative angiography in cerebral aneurysm and AV-malformation

    • Bernhard L. Bauer

    V. Intraoperative diagnostic techniques Pages: 209 - 217

22. CT-stereotaxy in the clinical routine

    • Fritz Mundinger
    • Walter Birg

    V. Intraoperative diagnostic techniques Pages: 219 - 224