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Man Who Survived Brain Tumor Dies While Trying to Climb Remote 27,000-Foot Mountain
You died doing something you loved in a place that you loved," the wife of Alex Pancoe wrote in an Instagram post ...
Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye
Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...
Rare spinal cancer tumor removed through patient’s eye at university hospital
Innovative Maryland surgeons pioneer first-of-its-kind transorbital approach to remove spinal tumors, successfully treating a ...
Rare spinal tumor removed through patient's eye socket
In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...
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Michael Bolton Details Battle With Rare, Aggressive Form of Brain Cancer
Michael Bolton opened up for the first time about his battle with glioblastoma, a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer, ...
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Miracle surgery: Doctors remove a hard-to-reach spinal tumor through the eye of a patient
After a month, Karla underwent proton therapy, a type of radiation treatment that is used to remove any tumor remains in the ...
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Rare spinal cancer tumor removed through patient’s eye at university hospital
Ancient Egyptians Attempted To Surgically Remove Brain Cancer From Skull 4,000 Years Ago ... a titanium plate and rebuilt the cheek with bone from the patient’s hip, the release detailed.
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Surgeons bid for medical first: Removing spinal tumor through patient’s eye
Johnson pieced together the story of Karla Flores’s eye socket surgery through more than a dozen interviews with the three surgeons, Flores and her family. In addition, the reporter was able to ...
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Rare spinal tumor removed through patient's eye socket
Learning about the spinal and brain tumors was terrifying ... and a portion of the cheek bone, to carve out a large enough pathway for surgeons to thread surgical tools into the sinus to reach ...
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Indian American surgeon helps remove spinal tumor through eye socket
Kalpesh T. Vakharia part of team performing first-of-its-kind surgery at University of Maryland Medical Center ...
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Doctors use "third nostril" to remove tumor wrapped around Rosedale woman's spine
This story may sound graphic, but what we're about to tell you saved a young Rosedale woman's life. Karla Flores, now 20, ...