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Volume 65, Issue 1 , Pages 38-41 , January 2006

Water dissection technique of Toth for opening neurosurgical cleavage planes

Laszlo Nagy, MD
- Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Neurosurgery, MAV Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Keisuke Ishii, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
Ayse Karatas, MD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
Hu Shen, MD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
Janos Vajda, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery, National Institute of Neurosurgery, MAV Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Mika Niemelä, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
Juha Jääskeläinen, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
Juha Hernesniemi, MD, PhD
- Department of Neurosurgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, 00260 Helsinki, Finland
- Corresponding author. Tel.: +358 504270220; fax: +358 9 471 87560.
Szabolcs Toth, MD, DMSc
- Department of Neurosurgery, MAV Hospital, Budapest, Hungary

Received 10 May 2005 ,Accepted 18 August 2005.

Principle of WDT.

Principle of WDT.
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A: Simple syringe. B: Intraoperative picture demonstrates the separation effect of low-pressure WDT under microscope.

A: Simple syringe. B: Intraoperative picture demonstrates the separation effect of low-pressure WDT under microscope.
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Convexity meningioma and its delicate separation from eloquent cortex with WDT at the beginning (A) and lost stage (B) of surgery (cf Video 1).

Convexity meningioma and its delicate separation from eloquent cortex with WDT at the beginning (A) and lost stage (B) of surgery (cf Video 1).
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