News tagged with brain surgery
New tool to help surgeons remove more cancer tissue during brain surgery
Scientists are reporting development and successful initial testing of a new tool that tells whether brain tissue is normal or cancerous while an operation is underway, so that surgeons can remove more of ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Tagging tumors with gold: Scientists use gold nanorods to flag brain tumors
"It's not brain surgery" is a phrase often uttered to dismiss a job's difficulty, but when the task actually is removing a brain tumor, even the slightest mistake could have serious health consequences. To ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 12, 2011 |
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How brain surgery saved the life of a patient preparing to die
John Moran was 27 years old when he underwent a long-shot brain surgery for what appeared to be a malignant tumor that would almost certainly be fatal.
Mar 24, 2011 |
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UNC surgeons pioneer new approach to aneurysms: Go through the nose
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dr. Anand V. Germanwala and Dr. Adam M. Zanation have published a paper describing a surgery they performed that is believed to be the first reported clipping of a ruptured brain aneurysm through a patient's ...
Jan 13, 2011 |
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Virus might fight brain tumors better if armed with bacterial enzyme, study shows
New research shows that oncolytic viruses, which are engineered to destroy cancer cells, might be more effective in treating deadly brain tumors if equipped with an enzyme that helps them penetrate the tumor.
Jan 13, 2011 |
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UA surgeons remove brain tumors through nose
(PhysOrg.com) -- An innovative surgical technique now performed at University Medical Center involves removing skull base brain tumors entirely through the nose and sinuses without incisions to the face or ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Insight offers new angle of attack on variety of brain tumors
A newly published insight into the biology of many kinds of less-aggressive but still lethal brain tumors, or gliomas, opens up a wide array of possibilities for new therapies, according to scientists at Brown University ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Magnetic test reveals hyperactive brain network responsible for involuntary flashbacks
US scientists have found a correlation between increased circuit activity in the right side of the brain and the suffering of involuntary flashbacks by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) sufferers.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Scarless brain surgery is new option for patients
Surgeons at UW Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle and at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine have determined that transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery (TONES) is a safe, effective ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 01, 2010 |
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New tool 'cooks' cancer cells in inoperable brain tumors
Washington University neurosurgeons are tackling brain tumors at Barnes-Jewish Hospital with a new laser probe.
Sep 30, 2010 |
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New invention could improve treatment for children with 'water on the brain'
Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) scientists participated in a study with researchers from the University of Utah that could help find ways to improve shunt systems used to treat the neurological disorder hydrocephalus, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Sep 24, 2010 |
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What's causing life-threatening blood clots in brain surgery patients?
One of the most severe complications of brain surgery is a life-threatening blood clot in the lungs called a pulmonary embolism.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Doctors perform brain surgery via eyelid
When Liane Lefever complained to her doctor about a persistent ear ache, an examination found a much more serious problem: a brain tumor.
Jul 05, 2010 |
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Shortcut through eyelid gives surgeons less-invasive approach to fix brain fluid leaks
Surgeons at Johns Hopkins have safely and effectively operated inside the brains of a dozen patients by making a small entry incision through the natural creases of an eyelid to reach the skull and deep brain.
Jun 08, 2010 |
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Study looks at major advances in pediatric epilepsy surgery at UCLA over 2 decades
By the age of 5, Rachel, who lives on a farm near a small town in Iowa, had been struggling with seizures brought on by intractable epilepsy for nearly three years.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 18, 2010 |
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Neurosurgery
Neurosurgery is the surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous systems and spinal column diseases amenable to surgical intervention. In the United States there are only about 3,000 neurosurgeons.[citation needed]
Neurosurgery deals with the study and practice of surgery in diseases of central and peripheral nervous systems.
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