Graduate student Lu Xu wears a device designed by engineers, at Washington University in St. Louis, that targets ultrasound waves to precise spots in the brain. Such targeting is the first step in a ...
For decades, diagnosis of brain cancer has been medicine’s most difficult and hazardous challenge. Simple imaging such as MRI scans may reveal a suspicious-looking lesion, but the only sure way to ...
Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...
A routine shunt surgery improves clinical care for people with hydrocephalus. Nearly half have Alzheimer's pathology, offering a natural model of LOAD. Every week, neurosurgeons supply ...
Malignant brain cancer is aggressive, and biopsies are invasive and painful, but now, some doctors have developed a new method of confirming a diagnosis: a liquid biopsy. Brain cancer’s survival rate ...
ThedaCare has a new, minimally invasive treatment for brain tumors and lesions using MRI-guided laser technology. It's the first health system to offer the treatment in northeastern Wisconsin. The ...
Researchers analyzed the diagnostic value of stereotactic brain biopsy in patients with leukemia presenting central nervous system lesions BEIJING, BEIJING, CHINA ...
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