What Are the Side Effects After Brain Surgery?
The brain is best described as the component of your body that holds the reins to all its other major and minor systems, even while you are asleep! When …
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Acoustic Neuromas
Here is a possible scenario: you can't hear anything when you put the telephone to one of your ears. Your doctor delivers the bad news — that you have …
History Of Brain Surgery
Brain surgery is perhaps the oldest of the practiced medical arts. Who invented brain surgery? There is no hard evidence suggesting a beginning to the practice of other fields …
‘Awake’ Brain Surgery: It’s possible and effective!
Surgery is the first line of treatment for the majority of brain tumor patients. The success rate for many benign tumors of the brain is quite high. Surgical treatment …
Can Your Personality Change after Brain Surgery?
Defeating a brain tumor involves much more than just “surviving” the surgical operation and the endless sessions of radiotherapy or chemotherapy. It goes beyond that. “Survivorship” is a constantly …
Eyebrow Incision – Frontally Located Tumors
This is a new surgical concept. It minimizes the invasion of the skull to extract a frontally situated tumor. We enter the area via the eyebrow using a very …
Computer-Guided Stereo-Tactic Biopsy of Brain Tissue
This is a slide-show presentation of a computer-guided stereo-tactic biopsy of brain tissue. It is in two parts. Here is part one. And now for the second part.
Cavernous Hemangiomas
Overview What is a cavernous hemangioma? A cavernous hemangioma is a collection of abnormal, dilated blood vessels in the brain. A cavernous hemangioma may also be known as a …
Aneurysm Surgery – What Is Involved
A Stroke is the ultimate “Brain Attack.” It can strike the young, healthy, productive head of a household during a soft, shared moment with a spouse — anytime. Nothing …
My Meningioma Story And Me
My meningioma story began on Thursday, September 2, 1994, at about 1:30 PM, my ‘lights went out' and I had a meningioma (MD talk for a benign tumor on …