{"id":9395,"date":"2024-10-25T15:05:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/surgeon-removes-large-brain-tumours-through-patients-eyebrows-in-world-first\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T15:05:33","slug":"surgeon-removes-large-brain-tumours-through-patients-eyebrows-in-world-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/25\/surgeon-removes-large-brain-tumours-through-patients-eyebrows-in-world-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon removes large brain tumours through patients\u2019 eyebrows in \u2018world first\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surgeon is removing brain tumours &#8220;the size of large apples&#8221; through patients&#8217; eyebrows, in what is believed to be a world first.<\/p>\n<p>Consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis, based in <strong>Aberdeen<\/strong>, has adapted an existing technique to remove the growths, leaving patients with only a small scar and black eye.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>The operation can be over in three hours, and some people can leave hospital just 24 hours later and return to work within days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With this technique patients wake up straight way, they sometimes go home the day after the operation, where we know patients have quicker and better recoveries,&#8221; said Mr Giamouriadis.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with tumours at the front of the brain normally requires surgeons to remove a large portion of the skull &#8211; exposing healthy parts of the brain in the process &#8211; in what is known as a craniotomy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Mr Giamouriadis who works for <strong>NHS<\/strong> Grampian said this type of surgery is not new, but he has modified it to give him &#8220;more space, through the eyebrow&#8221; allowing him &#8220;to remove very big brain tumours&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The technique is &#8220;a game-changer and much less invasive&#8221;, he said. &#8220;Traditionally people would be left with scars across their full forehead, we avoid that with this method.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Before we needed do a craniotomy to give us full access. That takes a very long time. To get to the tumour takes up to three hours alone. In total that approach will take eight to 10 hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Doreen Adams, 75, underwent a craniotomy to remove a tumour abroad before later undergoing the eyebrow method last year &#8211; known as the Modified Eyebrow Keyhole SupraOrbital Approach for Brain Tumours.<\/p>\n<p>She said: &#8220;The recovery after the craniotomy was tough. I contracted sepsis and was ill for a number of weeks and the recovery took a lot of time. Unfortunately that surgery did not solve the problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, the difference in the two surgeries is night and day. My recovery&#8230; was much, much quicker. I was out of hospital two days later and back to my normal life almost immediately.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Giamouriadis and his team have performed the new procedure on 48 patients so far.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about his modified surgical technique, he said: &#8220;We are not aware of anywhere else in the world that has managed to remove tumours as large as we have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr Giamouriadis is hopeful he can one day use virtual reality to teach other surgeons how to perform the new improved procedure.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surgeon is removing brain tumours &#8220;the size of large apples&#8221; through patients&#8217; eyebrows, in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}