Success Rate of Brain Tumor Surgery in Mumbai
It depends on what you mean by success. And that question matters more than most families realise when they first ask it. “Success rate” flattens everything into one figure that doesn’t apply equally to every case. A meningioma in an accessible...
Is Awake Craniotomy Painful? What to Expect
No. It’s not painful. The brain genuinely has no pain receptors not a small number, none. There’s nothing inside the skull that registers a pain signal. And the scalp, which does have receptors, gets numbed with local anaesthetic before the first incision....
Why Patients Stay Awake During Brain Tumor Surgery
It sounds like the most frightening thing imaginable. It isn’t but that’s not a sentence that lands well without explanation. Certain brain tumors grow right next to areas that handle speech, language, movement. Remove the tumor under general anaesthesia...