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Jun, 2021
The 10th leading cause of morbidity in India- Brain Tumor is increasing the number of deaths every year. Although the number of deaths from Brain Tumor in India is increasing, the awareness of the disease remains low. World Brain Tumour…
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24
Feb, 2021
How a worldly-wise teenager, who overcame every health failure with fortitude, taught a resident doctor to believe in the impossible Once upon a time, there was a boy name Arkojjwal. He was unlike any 13-year-old with a brain tumour that I have ever seen. In 2008, when I was an exhausted resident doctor training to be a neurosurgeon in Vellore, he was admitted to the paediatric ward that I was…
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26
Nov, 2020
A septuagenarian with a large pituitary tumor underwent safe endoscopic endonasal surgery at Wockhardt Hospital A team headed by Dr. Mazda Turel, Neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospital, South Bombay, along with ENT specialist Dr. Neepa Vellimutam successfully performed a complicated brain…
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Nov, 2019
A brain tumor is a mass or growth of abnormal cells developing in the brain. They can be benign or malignant. The tumors can be primary brain tumors originating in the brain (Gliomas) itself or in tissues close to it, such as in the brain-covering membranes, cranial nerves, pituitary gland or pineal gland. Sometime tumor can be a secondary lesion from another cancer in the body and spreads to the…
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