Lower back pain can be a sign of cancer, typically when the cancer has spread from other parts of the body to the spine. It can also occur when cancer of a nearby organ, such as colon cancer, has ...

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

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

After a month, Karla underwent proton therapy, a type of radiation treatment that is used to remove any tumor remains in the ...

They would remove the spinal tumor through her left eye socket. If the surgical path was not precise to within a few millimeters, Flores could lose all movement below the neck or suffer a fatal ...

Kalpesh T. Vakharia part of team performing first-of-its-kind surgery at University of Maryland Medical Center ...

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 ...

Neurosurgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore successfully removed a spinal cord tumor through a woman’s eye socket in a landmark case, the Washington Post reported May 4.

Although surgeons use a “transorbital” approach to access tumors in the brain and sinuses, this is the first time it has ever been used to remove a spinal tumor. In this case, the young woman ...

A groundbreaking surgery in Udaipur removed a 17-centimeter spinal tumor from a 21-year-old woman, recognized as a record achievement. Udaipur, Rajasthan – In an extraordinary milestone for ...