Innovative Maryland surgeons pioneer first-of-its-kind transorbital approach to remove spinal tumors, successfully treating a young woman's rare chordoma cancer.

This condition often manifests as pain in one part of the back and is associated with spinal fusion surgeries.

Imagine curing a life-threatening tumor by going through someone’s eye. That’s exactly what a team of surgeons did for a ...

This story may sound graphic, but what we're about to tell you saved a young Rosedale woman's life. Karla Flores, now 20, ...

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 ...

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully ...

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

Losing a head sounds like the end of the road for most living things, but not for these animals. They shrug off decapitation ...

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 ...

He suffered a broken neck and a severed spine. A GoFundMe has been set up to aid in his recovery. “He does not remember the accident, the attack. He says he doesn’t remember anything about it, ...

Brain and spine disorders ... telltale sign,” Dr. Vaish explains. Spinal disorders, too, manifest in a variety of ways—ranging from chronic back or neck pain, radiating limb pain (such as ...