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Miracle surgery: Doctors remove a hard-to-reach spinal tumor through the eye of a patient
After a month, Karla underwent proton therapy, a type of radiation treatment that is used to remove any tumor remains in the ...
Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye
Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...
Rare spinal tumor removed through patient's eye socket
In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...
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World-first: Surgeons make history with spinal tumor removal through patient’s eye
Neurosurgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the U.S. have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by ...
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Prosthetic Eye
But the procedure preserves tissues in the: outer eye eye socket (orbit) Enucleation. In this method, the entire eye (the globe-like "eyeball") is cut away and removed from the eye socket.
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Neurosurgeons remove spinal tumor through patient’s eye socket
Neurosurgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore successfully removed a spinal cord tumor through a woman’s eye socket in a landmark case, the Washington Post reported May 4.
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Maryland surgeons 1st to remove spinal tumor through eye socket
In a first-of-its-kind procedure, clinicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore removed a rare spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket.  The patient, Karla Flores of ...
Rare spinal cancer tumor removed through patient’s eye at university hospital
Innovative Maryland surgeons pioneer first-of-its-kind transorbital approach to remove spinal tumors, successfully treating a young woman's rare chordoma cancer.