Just before the medical staff wheeled Karla Flores into the operating room so that surgeons could work inside her head for the third time in less than a month, the 19-year-old budding manicurist said ...
A young Maryland woman is “relieved and recovering” after doctors performed a novel surgery to remove her potentially deadly cancerous tumors. A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical ...
St. LOUIS (KMOV/Gray News) - A Missouri teacher, husband and father is on the road to recovery after a life-changing diagnosis and risky surgery. For about five weeks starting in September, Steve ...
Many patients with advanced cancers experience significant pain, and the pain caused by metastases (cancers that have spread to the spine) can be excruciating as tumor growth replaces bone. This can ...
Karla Flores was 18 when she started experiencing double vision. She knew something was wrong but struggled to find a diagnosis. Finally, she saw an ophthalmologist who referred her to a neurosurgeon.
A woman’s spinal tumor was removed through her eye socket in a first-of-its-kind surgery Doctors threaded an endoscope down through her eye socket to drill into the vertebrae and remove the tumor She ...
A surgery involving veterinary and human neurologists to remove a chimpanzee's spinal tumor is believed to be the first documented procedure of its kind. It was done on a 34-year-old chimpanzee at Zoo ...