Through the laser, they eliminate brain tumors with a minimum of invasion

CITY OF MEXICO

In Mexico, the incidence of brain cancer is five thousand per million inhabitants, and on average, each year there are 300 children with some type of According to the National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, 100,000 consultations are performed and about 250 neurosurgery are performed to treat this type of disease, whereas they are detected each year. average of 30,000 new cases of brain cancer

Mexico has 800 specialists certified by the Mexican Council of Neurological Surgery to perform surgeries of this type for which Cleveland Clinic has developed a new minimally invasive technology to remove brain tumors.

This is how the laser SureFire of NeuroBlat uses a probe guided by magnetic resonance imaging to warm and remove diseased tissue while protecting healthy brain tissue .

According to the neurosurgeon Badih Adada, with this new tool the possibilities are extended survival for brain cancer patients to be minimal invasion, in addition to that during the procedure, the patient can be awake.

He explained that the laser is placed in the diseased tissue, while the damaged part is observed in real time, to eradicate the tumor or brain injury, from the inside to the # 39; outside.

Those who undergo surgery of this type, with new technology are generally discharged the next day leaving high-risk procedures in open brain procedures that involve several hours in surgery, l? General anesthesia and hospital recovery remain, as it is a craniotomy, he added.

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