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Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery

Surgery for brain tumors, skull base tumors and pituitary adenomas is a highly specialized area of neurosurgery that continues to rapidly evolve. At the BTC, we incorporate cutting edge technology and instrumentation with proven surgical experience to make surgery safer, less invasive and more effective. Given advances in instrumentation, surgical navigation and endoscopy, most brain tumors and pituitary tumors can now be removed via a “keyhole” approach through a small craniotomy or through a nostril (endonasal transsphenoidal approach).

See surgical videos for demonstrations of endoscopic and microscopic surgery.

KEY-HOLE SURGICAL APPROACHES:

• Endonasal transsphenoidal approach (through a nostril)

For removal of pituitary tumors, skull base tumors and some brain tumors

• Supra-orbital “eyebrow” craniotomy

For removal of frontal meningiomas, craniopharyngiomas, and other brain tumors

• Retro-sigmoid key-hole craniotomy

For removal of tumors in the posterior fossa and cerebello-pontine angle

• Other key-hole craniotomies

For removal of gliomas and metastatic brain tumors

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