At the end of the operation, the neurosurgeon declared that he had never before encountered a patient so calm and at ease during an awake brain surgery. When the living and breathing body of a 71-year ...

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre (SKMCHandRC) has achieved a milestone in paediatric neurosurgery by performing an awake brain tumour surgery on a 6-year-old patient, the ...

Awake craniotomy remains at the forefront of neurosurgical innovation, allowing for the resection of brain tumours adjacent to critical functional areas while minimising neurological deficits. This ...

LONDON – The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which ...