Aberdeen-based consultant neurosurgeon Anastasios Giamouriadis modified an existing method to remove the growths, leaving patients with only a black eye and a tiny scar.
After a three-hour procedure, some patients can leave the hospital within 24 hours and resume their jobs a few days later.
“We know that patients recover more quickly and effectively with this technique because patients wake up straight away and sometimes return home the day after the procedure,” Giamouriadis said.
Typically, surgeons must remove a significant amount of the skull to expose healthy regions in order to treat tumors in the front of the brain.
This kind of surgery is not new, according to NHS Grampian employee Mr. Giamouriadis, but he has altered it to give him “more space, through the eyebrow” so that he may “remove very big brain tumours.”
“The method is revolutionary and significantly less intrusive,” he stated. With this technique, we avoid the scars that would typically be left across a person’s entire forehead.
