Brain Surgery

Surgery for brain metastases

The use of surgery in the treatment of brain metastases is controversial. Patients who present certain clinical characteristics may experience prolonged survival with resection compared with radiation therapy. Thus, for patients with a single metastatic lesion in the setting of well-controlled systemic cancer, surgery is highly indicated. Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) alone can provide a simi...

Surviving brain surgery

Brain surgery has completely changed my life. When I was asked to consider having brain surgery, I foundmyself faced with a huge decision. I would like to describe my experience of the whole process, in the hope that this will help others who find themselves in a similar situation. Although they were initially misdiagnosed as migraine auras, I had been having simple partial and complex partial ...

Informed consent for brain surgery.

Brain Surgery for Sexual Disorders

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Nerve Monitoring During Brain Surgery

An area of special challenge, is the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), which is formed between the brain stem and the cerebellum, because of the close proximity of major nerve trunks and blood vessels. Acoustic tumours account for approximately 80% of CPA tumours, and surgery involves risk primarily to the facial nerve the motor nerve of facial expression, and the cochlear nerve the sensory nerve o...