Neurosurgeons face a deceptively simple problem every time they open a skull: the brain refuses to stay where the scan left ...
For a surgeon removing a tumor from the pituitary gland, the margin between success and catastrophe is literally about 1 millimeter (0.04 inches) — the distance separating the optic chiasm, the major ...
Treatment for meningiomas, the most common type of brain tumor, is now safer thanks to technological advancements. At Mayo Clinic, navigation tools and precision imaging help surgeons operate with ...
Students from the Higher School of Art and Design (ESAD) and Paris 8 University draw during a brain operation on an awake patient with a brain tumor, as part of a Franco-German interdisciplinary ...