Stereotactic surgery

Stereotactic procedures are not new methods at the Department of Neurosurgery in Homburg, as they already have been carried out for more than 50 years. The first surgeries with classical calculation via contrast filling of the ventricles have been established under the neurosurgical clinic management of Prof. Loew Prof Dickmann in Homburg. In the 1980s his successor Prof. Ostertag introduced a CT-based stereotactic calculation and extended the field of application of stereotactic surgery towards tumors.

At the beginning of the 1990s, the first deep brain stimulation (DBS) in the German speaking-area was performed by his successor Prof. Morin Glane at the UKS. This implantation of electrodes is known broadly as "brain pacemaker" and has established itself in the meantime as the method of choice for the treatment of patients with Parkinson's or other types of tremor, who cannot be treated with drugs. The Homburger tradition of stereotactic operations was continued in 2010 under the new leadership of Prof. Oertel by changing the calculation to presently up-to-date computer planning and intraoperative micro discharges. Since then patients are treated by a team of neurosurgeons and neurologists.