We can't decide if this makes the idea of brain surgery more or less terrifying: Instead of sawing through your skull, neurosurgeons have found another way of getting at your brain -- tunneling ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully removed a rare cancerous tumor wrapped around the spine and spinal cord of a ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a U.K. medical first, 40-year-old Ruvimbo Kaviya successfully underwent a procedure to remove a tumor through her eye socket.

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