Revolutioned Brain Surgery
Sicentists from Howard Florey Institute, Melbourne are developing a revolutionized technology to create individualized brain maps to diagnosis diseases and guide the brain surgery. Current coarse maps of the brain’s structure do not allow for differences that occur between people. This brain mapping technology will provide microscopic level investigation of individual brains, and it will be available in the next 2-3 years.
New Brain mapping technique
Neurosurgeons from the University of California, San Francisco are reporting significant results of a new brain mapping technique that allows for the safe removal of tumors near language pathways in the brain. The technique minimizes brain exposure and reduces the amount of time a patient must be awake during surgery.
Language mapping, originally created to help guide epilepsy surgery, has proved to be an essential tool in helping neurosurgeons identify which parts of the tumor can be safely removed and in protecting patients from damage to speech and language centers.
Earlier it was estimated that 20,500 men and women will be diagnosed with, and 12,740 men and women will die of, cancer of the brain and other areas of the nervous system in 2007, according to the American Cancer Society.
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