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Doctor develops the worldâs first surgery to remove a brain tumor with a wound less than the patientâs eyebrow; This way
A surgeon working in Scotland has developed a way to remove apple-sized brain tumors through patientsâ eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world-first procedure. Read on to know more about it.
Dr Giamouriadis says his team have already performed 48 such surgeries, where they have removed tumors from the front of the brain â something that had never been done before (Picture: The Independent)
A UK-based surgeon has developed a brand new way of removing large apple-sized brain tumors through patientsâ eyebrows. Dr Anastasios Giamoriadis, a consultant neurosurgeon at NHS Grampian in Scotland, used keyhole surgery, which leaves a significantly smaller scar than a regular craniotomy, according to the NHS.
According to Dr. Giamoriadis, his team has already performed 48 such surgeries where they have removed tumor from the front of the brainSomething that has never been done before, The Independent reports. âI have modified and developed the technique with my team and we are operating on very large brain tumors in the frontal and midbrain areas,â he said. According to Dr. Giamouriadis, this procedure not only takes less time, but it also provides faster healing and quick recovery.
Dr. Giamouradis says many of his patients have been able to leave the hospital after a day, which has also had a positive impact on their mental health. âThis has a significant positive impact on patient outcome. With a typical, wide craniotomy, the length of the operation is typically about eight hours and patients spend several days in the hospital,â he said.
âBy doing this via the keyhole approach through the eyebrows, it is technically more challenging, but it probably takes half the time â if not less. The patient will go home the next day and in most cases will return to normal life within a week or two,â said Dr. Giamouriadis.
Doctor says procedure challenging but rewarding
According to Dr. Giamouriadis, the entire process of performing surgery through the eyebrows is âtechnically more challenging,â but the time taken is probably half that of a regular surgical procedure to remove the tumor.
He recently conducted the procedure on Doreen Adams â a patient whose craniotomy was unsuccessful. Adams says she did not suffer the usual after-effects of the surgery.
âI felt great after the operation,â he said. âMy eye was blackened and it took a while for it to open, but that was it,â Adams said.
Doctors want to use VR technology to advance innovative procedure
Dr. Giamouriadis says he hopes to one day be able to teach other surgeons how to perform the new advanced procedure using virtual reality. He is currently working with a team at the University of Aberdeen on this project and they are âvery closeâ to completing it.
âIt is very challenging to train someone to perform this operation in real life,â he said.
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