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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 ...
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 ...
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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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First-Of-Its-Kind Surgery Uses Eye Socket To Remove Spinal Cancer
Surgeons have previously used routes through the eye socket to access tumors in the brain and sinuses, but this is the first ...
Warrington Wolves' Marc Sneyd opens up about fractured eye socket ahead of Challenge Cup final
Marc Sneyd has detailed how he returned to play just 16 days after fracturing his eye socket; he made it back in time to assist his side Warrington Wolves with getting to the Challenge Cup final at ...
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Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye
Johnson pieced together the story of Karla Flores’s eye socket surgery through more than a dozen interviews with the three surgeons, Flores and her family. In addition, the reporter was able to ...
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In first-of-its-kind surgery, rare spinal tumor removed through patient’s eye socket at University of Maryland Medical Center
“By going through the bottom of the eye socket, we were able to remove a ... that was wrapped around her brain stem, a critical structure which controls many vital functions.
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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Rare spinal cancer tumor removed through patient’s eye at university hospital
A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...