Pterional craniotomy is a surgery that involves removing part of the skull to access the skull base. Doctors widely use the procedure for managing certain lesions, tumors, and aneurysms. Pterional ...

Keyhole approaches in neurosurgery represent a paradigm shift towards the smallest possible craniotomy tailored to the lesion’s location and pathology. By employing precise, often sub-3 cm bone ...

A craniotomy and craniectomy are two types of surgeries that involve removing a flap of bone from your skull to reveal part of your brain. During a craniotomy, the flap of bone is replaced at the end ...

Coils and stents less invasively repair brain aneurysms, but are they superior to clips implanted during surgery? A study compares the treatments. Aneurysms are weak, bulging portions of blood vessel ...

A prospective multicenter study of 59 Chinese patients with unruptured WNBAs treated with the WEB™ device showed a 98.3% technical success rate. At one year, 82% achieved adequate occlusion and 56% ...

Researchers investigated whether aspirin can aid in the prevention of intracranial aneurysm rupture by hindering aneurysm growth. The researchers identified 146 patients harboring multiple ...

Robotics is entering the realm of brain-aneurysm treatment, with a local neurosurgeon in the forefront of using it. And Connie Watts, a Lakeland woman, is the first of several patients to receive ...

"Intracranial aneurysm formation in patients with ADPKD is an established relationship; the aim of our review was to encourage neurosurgeons and nephrologists alike to consider a more streamlined ...

The Independent and Yahoo will earn a commission from purchases made via links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. A man has been spared a major brain operation after ...