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A long lists of firsts

With access to one of the world’s largest research programs, the surgical team at Children’s Hospital’s Brain Care Institute conducts research and clinical trials to explore new applications for minimally invasive brain surgery techniques. If the past is any indication of the future, these experts will soon develop more and better techniques of using minimally invasive surgery to treat a wide range of conditions.

Here are just a few of UPMC’s achievements in the field of minimally invasive surgery:

First in the world to use nasal passages to reach deep-seated tumors and lesions that previously required disfiguring and potentially debilitating surgery
Developed new applications for EEA and expanded on this technique, which was originally designed to reach pituitary tumors
Has performed more than 175 pediatric EEA procedures
First to remove a giant teratoma in a newborn patient endoscopically through the skull base using a modified EEA
In collaboration with surgeons in Argentina, first to consistently use a vascularized nasoseptal flap for skull base reconstruction
First to remove an arteriovenous malformation using EEA
First to perform surgery for removal of the second vertebra using EEA
First to move the pituitary using EEA to remove a tumor behind the pituitary

Last Update
May 29, 2012

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