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Gamma Knife: Brain Surgery without a Knife
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Gamma Knife radiosurgery is recognized world-wide as the preferred treatment for metastatic brain tumors and has proven effective for certain primary brain tumors and arteriovenous malformations. This revolutionary, non-invasive surgery is safe, efficient, and proven by decades of research and clinical data.
Surgery Without Stitches
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Measuring just 50 microns, the film is placed on a surgical wound and exposed to an infrared laser, which heats the film just enough to meld it and the tissue, thus perfectly sealing the wound. Known as Surgilux, the device's raw material is extracted from crab shells and has Food and Drug Administration approval in the US.
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"Surgery without stitches"
