Items Tagged ‘neurosurgery’
August 9, 2019
Bride defeats brain tumor to see wedding day in Fairmont, Minn.
KMSP Christina Anderson was 24 years old, engaged and three months away from her wedding day when doctors discovered a tumor in her brain that would require emergency brain surgery. Christina had been feeling sick for months while she was planning her big day…Her sickness got so bad that she landed in the emergency room […]
Tags: Christina Anderson, Dr, Fox9 Twin Cities, neurosurgery
May 31, 2019
Mayo Clinic debuts new virtual operating rooms
ABC 15 Arizonaby Allison Rodriguez The future of surgery is here and is happening at the Mayo Clinic as it debuts new virtual operating rooms. They have cutting edge technology that they hope will mean better treatment for patients. “As we launch this, I feel like we’re at the Kennedy Space Center with a mission […]
Tags: ABC15 Arizona, Dr. Bernard Bendok, neurosurgery, virtual operating rooms
May 17, 2019
Mayo Clinic neurosurgeons get real-time feedback from alert surgery patients
AZ Familyby Heidi Goitia It’s one thing to need brain surgery, it’s quite another to know that you will be awake for part of the operation. But that’s what doctors at the Mayo Clinic are doing because they say it gives them real time feedback on what’s working and what isn’t. Dr. Bernard R. Bendok […]
Tags: AZ Family, Dr. Bernard Bendok, neurosurgery
April 11, 2019
Mayo expands neurosurgery In Mankato
KEYC Mankato by Nick Kruszalnicki The new operating rooms at the Mayo Clinic Hospital in Mankato are letting doctors do more complicated procedures closer to home. “On December 13th we embarked on the surgery here and it’s been a procedure that I could have never guessed would be that good,” said Gyles Randall, who recently […]
April 11, 2019
Brain tumor treatment innovations
Arizona PBS Mayo Clinic Arizona is using new methods to stop and remove brain tumors, and has opened three new image-guided operating rooms. The rooms allow surgeons to perform safer, less invasive procedures to remove brain tumors that had been considered inoperable. We’ll hear more from clinical neurosurgery expert Dr. Bernard Bendok. Reach: Eight, Arizona PBS is […]
Tags: Arizona PBS, brain tumors, Dr. Bernard Bendok, neurosurgery
October 18, 2018
Florida Times-Union Cheers to Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa for his inspirational work to save lives in under-developed areas of our world. Quiñones, chairman of neurologic surgery at Mayo Clinic, is the founder of Mission: BRAIN, a nonprofit foundation that has done scores of complex surgeries — including procedures to remove brain tumors, reconstruct skulls […]
Tags: brain tumor, Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Florida Times-Union, Mission: BRAIN, neurosurgery
September 21, 2018
How 1 neurosurgeon helped save this violinist’s storied career
Today Roger Frisch, an accomplished violinist and member of the Minnesota Orchestra, developed a tremor in his hand that threatened his career. But thanks to the brilliant work of neurosurgeon Kendall Lee, Frisch has found a solution. His story is featured in Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The Mayo Clinic.” Megyn Kelly is joined by Frisch, […]
Tags: Dr. Kendall Lee, Minnesota Orchestra, neurosurgery, Roger Frisch, TODAY
June 22, 2018
UNF, Mayo experiment with rare 3-D microscope
Jacksonville Business Journal by Will Robinson Materials Science and Engineering Research Facility watched as dozens of dots scattered across their computer screen. Some dots balled up, others exploded. The dots were cancerous cells from a brain tumor recently removed by a Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon. The visual was made possible by an advanced microscope, the only one […]
Tags: Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Dr. Maarten Rotman, neurosurgery
June 1, 2018
How one man went from farmhand to chair of neurologic surgery at Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville He’s known as “Dr. Q,” the affable Mayo Clinic neurosurgeon and researcher with a welcoming bedside manner. But for Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, the road to the operating room was an unlikely journey. Born in a village outside Mexicali, Mexico, Quiñones-Hinojosa was just 19 when he illegally crossed the border into the U.S., determined to make a […]
Tags: Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa, Jacksonville magazine, neurosurgery
May 3, 2018
Augmented reality lab combines math, engineering to change brain-cancer outcomes
Arizona Daily Star by Joan Magtibay, Cronkite News Imagine you’ve just been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor and need surgery. Instead of looking at shadowy black and white 2-D images you can’t decipher, you put on goggles and “walk through” the cancer using augmented reality. As a result, you can better grasp your disease, […]
Tags: Arizona Daily Star, Dr. Bernard Bendok, Dr. Kristin Swanson, Dr. Matthew Welz, neurosurgery