New Unique Neurosurgery Techniques

Slovak neurosurgeons managed to develop new, more secure method of operating on deep-seated tumours in thebrain. They have already used it on 10 patients in the University Hospital Bratislava (UNB), the TASR newswire reported

In most cases when surgery is done in the part of the brain called the insula, small important vessels that often run directly through the tumour may be damaged.

“A vast majority of these vessels are smaller than one millimetre,” said Andrej Šteňo of the neurosurgery ward of the Comenius University’s Faculty of Medicine and UNB, as quoted by TASR.

The average diameter of the vessels is 0.45 millimetres, while only rarely the vessels are as big as 1.5 millimetres, he added.