Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery, as the name suggests aims at carrying out neurosurgical operations in such a way that the damage to the normal brain and other surrounding structures is minimised. This is a vital concept, because the brain, unlike other organs, is extremely specialised and if one part is damaged during surgery then the other parts cannot take over that function. Therefore, the margin for less.
Due to major advances in imaging technology, neurosurgeons now have access to exteremly high resolution CT and MRI images of the diseased brain before the operation. Microsurgery has also made significant advances over the last decade and its developement is now more or less complete. However, a consensus is developing among some neurosurgeons that the standard microsurgical techniques are too invasive and do not fully utilise the information available from the CT or MRI. Therefore, newer techniques are being developed which strictly adhere to the basic tenets of MIN. These techniques are now been used on patients and more information is available by going into the links given below: