Items Tagged ‘Stereostatic Radiosurgery’
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Radiosurgery Trials Looking Good for Epileptics
Dr. Robert Goodman from our Epilepsy Center was part of a multi-center trial on the use of Gamma Knife Radiosurgery as an alternative to open brain surgery to help Epileptics get rid of their seizures. Results from this trial have been published this year in the February issue of Annals of Neurol...
Posted on Dec 22, 2009 by Department Author In Blog, Brain Tumor Blog, Epilepsy Blog, Gamma Knife Blog, Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Uncategorized -
One Picture Speaks A Thousand Words, These Radiosurgeons Use Two
At the Gamma Knife Center they like to be thorough. Before they perform radiosurgery on someone's brain they do exhaustive tests to locate the problem. One of the problems they treat is called Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation, AVM for short. An AVM happens when small blood vessels in the brain form a tangled mass. This mass can cause brain cells to die, it can start bleeding, and it often causes headaches and sometimes seizures.
Posted on Dec 10, 2009 by Neurosurgery Webmaster In Arteriovenous Malformations, Blog, Cerebrovascular Blog, Gamma Knife Blog
