Surgeons have previously used routes through the eye socket to access tumors in the brain and sinuses, but this is the first ...

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, clinicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore removed a rare spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket.  The patient, Karla Flores of ...

It sends messages from your brain to the rest of your body and helps you respond to changes inside and around you. Your brain, spinal cord ... passes through your neck. Your vagus nerve is ...

She also underwent two other surgeries to remove a tumor pressing on her brain stem TUESDAY ... the patient’s spine and spinal cord and had invaded the vertebrae in her neck, just below the ...