{"id":160949,"date":"2024-10-25T00:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T00:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/surgeon-removes-large-brain-tumours-through-patients-eyebrows-in-world-first\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T00:43:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T00:43:22","slug":"surgeon-removes-large-brain-tumours-through-patients-eyebrows-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/surgeon-removes-large-brain-tumours-through-patients-eyebrows-in-world-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon removes large brain tumours through patients’ eyebrows in ‘world first’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A surgeon is removing brain tumours “the size of large apples” through patients’ eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world first.<\/p>\n

Consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis, based in Aberdeen<\/strong><\/a>, has adapted an existing technique to remove the growths, leaving patients with only a small scar and black eye.<\/p>\n

The operation can be over in three hours, and some people can leave hospital just 24 hours later and return to work within days.<\/p>\n

“With this technique patients wake up straight way, they sometimes go home the day after the operation, where we know patients have quicker and better recoveries,” said Mr Giamouriadis.<\/p>\n

Dealing with tumours at the front of the brain normally requires surgeons to remove a large portion of the skull – exposing healthy parts of the brain in the process – in what is known as a craniotomy.<\/p>\n

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Mr Giamouriadis who works for NHS<\/strong><\/a> Grampian said this type of surgery is not new, but he has modified it to give him “more space, through the eyebrow” allowing him “to remove very big brain tumours”.<\/p>\n

The technique is “a game-changer and much less invasive”, he said. “Traditionally people would be left with scars across their full forehead, we avoid that with this method.”<\/p>\n

“Before we needed do a craniotomy to give us full access. That takes a very long time. To get to the tumour takes up to three hours alone. In total that approach will take eight to 10 hours.”<\/p>\n

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Doreen Adams, 75, underwent a craniotomy to remove a tumour abroad before later undergoing the eyebrow method last year – known as the Modified Eyebrow Keyhole SupraOrbital Approach for Brain Tumours.<\/p>\n

She said: “The recovery after the craniotomy was tough. I contracted sepsis and was ill for a number of weeks and the recovery took a lot of time. Unfortunately that surgery did not solve the problem.<\/p>\n

“For me, the difference in the two surgeries is night and day. My recovery… was much, much quicker. I was out of hospital two days later and back to my normal life almost immediately.”<\/p>\n

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Mr Giamouriadis and his team have performed the new procedure on 48 patients so far.<\/p>\n

Speaking about his modified surgical technique, he said: “We are not aware of anywhere else in the world that has managed to remove tumours as large as we have.”<\/p>\n

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Mr Giamouriadis is hopeful he can one day use virtual reality to teach other surgeons how to perform the new improved procedure.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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