Awake brain surgery is a safe and effective treatment for several brain conditions. Although it may be intimidating for a person to be awake during brain surgery, this is often an essential part of ...

Awake craniotomy remains at the forefront of neurosurgical innovation, allowing for the resection of brain tumours adjacent to critical functional areas while minimising neurological deficits. This ...

They now use it on all their awake-craniotomy patients, even those like Daniels whose surgery was only expected to last a few hours. Long awake craniotomies are somewhat controversial, however.

A craniotomy is type of brain surgery. It involves removing part of the skull, or cranium, to access the brain. The bone is replaced when the surgery is done. In general, a craniotomy is done to ...

A 5-year-old girl became the world's youngest patient to undergo awake brain surgery at AIIMS. The procedure, known as awake craniotomy, was performed to remove a tumor in the left side of her brain ...

In a groundbreaking procedure for brain tumor removal, a 45-year-old lady remained awake and recited the Gayathri Mantra for two hours during the operation. In an impressive yet strange procedure, ...

‘It’s Aliyana, not Ariana,’ Kelly Ann corrected her doctor when he started chatting about her horse. She could be forgiven for being a little snappy – he was asking the question while operating on her ...

Increasing numbers of patients are undergoing brain surgery while awake, so surgeons can check for signs of neurological damage, experts say. The pioneering technique – once seen as the stuff of ...

Indore (Madhya Pradesh): In yet another notable achievement, doctors of Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital here have performed a successful ‘awake’ craniotomy on a brain tumour patient. ‘Awake’ ...