GAMMA KNIFE NEUROSURGERY

The Leksell Gamma Knife is a neurosurgical device used to treat brain tumors with radiation therapy. It is not a knife at all and no incisions are made in your head. Instead, Leksell Gamma Knife directs precisely focused beams of radiation at your brain tumor, lesion or other abnormality. It is a tool that allows for the treatment of deep-seated lesions in the brain that eliminates the risks associated with open surgery such as hemorrhage, infection, and cerebral spinal fluid leakage.

The Leksell Gamma Knife device contains 201 cobalt-60 sources. The device aims gamma radiation through a target point in the patient's brain. These sources are positioned in a hemisphere so that all the beams can converge on a single point. The shape and dose of the radiation is optimized to hit only the target, without damaging surrounding healthy tissue. The patient wears a specialized helmet that is surgically fixed to their skull so that the brain tumor remains stationary at target point of the gamma rays.

The Gamma Knife has proved effective for thousands of patients with benign or malignant brain tumors, vascular malformations such as an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), pain or other functional problems. For treatment of trigeminal neuralgia the procedure may be used repeatedly on patients.

Ultimately, consideration for Gamma Knife radiosurgery or Gamma Knife neurosurgery treatment is contingent upon the patient's diagnosis, medical history and the case's overall severity upon consultation. In some instances, neurosurgeons will consider treatment for patients with metastatic disease, the elderly and whose life span will not exceed fifteen years, as well as those with inoperable lesions.

Leksell Gamma Knife guarantees accuracy to better than 0.5mm and has found the actual achievable accuracy to be 0.15mm. The new Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion system provides a larger treatment volume, allowing more sites of treatment.

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