Finally, in November 2024, an MRI scan revealed a large benign tumour growing inside her spinal cord. Facing the risk of ...

Innovative Maryland surgeons pioneer first-of-its-kind transorbital approach to remove spinal tumors, successfully treating a ...

Karla Flores had a tumor strangling her spinal cord near the base of her skull. Doctors weighed whether they should attempt a ...

For the first time, a surgery was performed through the eye to remove spinal cord cancer; the 19-hour procedure was a total ...

By Dr. John Villano University of Kentucky Each year, thousands of adults are diagnosed with tumors that form in the brain or ...

Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get narrow ...

Certain spinal cord lesions in people with MS show damage to nerve fibers despite having preserved myelin content, a possible ...

A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) extracted the tumors, which had wrapped around the spinal cord, through the patient’s eye socket. This was the first time ...