Just before the medical staff wheeled Karla Flores into the operating room so that surgeons could work inside her head for the third time in less than a month, the 19-year-old budding manicurist said ...

A woman’s spinal tumor was removed through her eye socket in a first-of-its-kind surgery Doctors threaded an endoscope down through her eye socket to drill into the vertebrae and remove the tumor She ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully removed a rare cancerous tumor wrapped around the spine and spinal cord of a ...

A young Maryland woman is “relieved and recovering” after doctors performed a novel surgery to remove her potentially deadly cancerous tumors. A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical ...

Neurosurgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in the U.S. have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by successfully removing a spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket in a pioneering ...

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