In this video, Dr. Arijit Chakraborty, Consultant - Neurosurgery at Manipal Hospital, explains Brain Tumour Surgery. He highlights ...

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Brain Tumour Surgery | Manipal Hospital Broadway

hello I am Dr chakraverti consultant neurosurgeon at manipal hospital Broadway Kolkata today I'll be talking about brain tumor surgery you know this is 2024 and today our goal is to remove the complete brain tumor with maximum safety that means our goal is to remove completely and to preserve the normal function of the patient how to do this we have lot of advanced adjuncts to perform this surgery the first is pre-operative planning for example a patient comes to me with certain amount of hand weakness or leg weakness MRI shows there is a tumor compressing the hand area or the leg area now my goal will be with minimum incision and minimum incision on the brain to remove the brain tumor completely but without any effect on the normal hand area or leg area of the brain and for that the first step is a proper planning weo pre Ido pre-operative detailed MRI scanning functional MRI or the speech mapping diffusion tensor Imaging to exactly see the tumor in relation to the normal areas of brain then comes precise planning for the surgery now now talking about the surgery we do minimally invasive neurosurgery just to open the part that we need we remove the tumor using lot of Advanced Technologies for example we have neuron navigation it is just like our Google Maps or navigation system where we can exactly know in the brain where we are going second we can even do awake gromy that means the patient is awake patient can play the guitar patient can talk to me while I'm performing the surgery in that case while I'm doing the surgery if we notice certain amount of slight weakness of hand or leg we can just stop the surgery at this particular point if required we can leave one or 2 mm of tumor just to save the hand or leg of the patient then comes other tools for example we have ultrasonic aspirator that gives us opportunity to remove the tumor without much of manipulation we also have intraoperative neurom monitoring where we can monitor all the nerves of the body while removing the brain tumor so that means today we have lot of advanced gadgets to perform the brain tumor safely that gives us a lot of confidence to discharge the patient after the surgery early and also to have a better outcome because the thumb rule for brain tumor surgery is the extent of resection that means the more the area of for the resection better the outcome yes there are different types of brain tumor low grade and high grade the high grade tumors also require certain radiotherapy and chemotherapy after the surgery with everything today the brain humor surgical outcome is excellent and I'm happy for that thank you

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