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Mar, 2022
Acute headache, which does not get cured by painkillers intake, could be a sign of brain tumour. This has been revealed in a case study of a 36-year-old woman, presented by Mumbai’s Wockhardt hospital. Mitasha Agarwal (name changed), a…
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13
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 Day is observed annually on 8 June. The day is marked to raise awareness and educate people about brain tumors. Wockhardt Hospitals, Nagpur organized an awareness seminar on this day to…
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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…
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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 tumor resection surgery on a 72-year-old septuagenarian from Mumbai who was brought with a progressive vision loss. It was revealed that the patient was diagnosed with 4 cm pituitary adenoma pressing on his optic…
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29
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…
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