DALLAS, Sept. 7, 2006 -- A week after graduating from high school, Katherine Coit had brain surgery to remove an abnormal tangle of blood vessels that were bleeding in her brain. The potentially ...

Many people suffering from an ailment called essential tremor have trouble doing things most of us take for granted, like writing legibly, or drinking without spilling. Now, they're finding relief ...

Vidant Medical Center recently passed a major milestone for safer, less invasive cancer treatment. Vidant announced Monday that the hospital recently performed its 2,000th Gamma Knife procedure, a ...

While two advanced radiosurgery approaches — Gamma Knife and RapidArc® — offer different strengths, they are equally effective at eradicating cancer in the brain, say researchers at Sidney Kimmel ...

A hospital trust is marking 40 years since it became the first in the UK to use gamma knife surgery to treat patients with brain tumours. The National Centre for Stereotactic Radiosurgery, at the ...

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Cavernous sinus hemangiomas are rare, benign vascular tumours situated within the cavernous sinus, an anatomically complex region housing critical neurovascular structures. Their highly vascular ...

Dear Dr. Gott: My mother-in-law has been diagnosed with trigeminal neuralgia. There are many treatment options, but she would have to travel to another state for some of them. She is in her 90s, so ...