Detailed about Endoscopy Brain Surgery

Endoscopic brain surgery is a kind of process being used to cure the brain tumors. This procedure is considered as a minimally invasive surgery which allows neurosurgeons to easily identify as well as treat the conditions which are deep inside the brain.

The endoscopic surgery mainly allows treating the brain tumors less invasively than the traditional procedure being used for the brain surgery. This procedure gives an in-depth view of the brain of the neurosurgeons. At the time of this procedure, thing tubing which transmits the video images of the brain has been inserted within one or two small incisions in the skull or through an opening hole in the body. This equipment which is alike tube known as an endoscope and has a small camera which allows the neurosurgeon to vision the detailed images of the issue in the brain.

The approaches of endoscopic have been transformed completely from the traditional way and give a clear visualization of brain tumors. Thus, this technique not always requires to access the brain through the skull as neurosurgeons can visualize the brain through brain and sinuses.

For treating the brain tumor neurosurgeon mostly use the images taken by the endoscope and treat the effective area of the patient. The removal of the affected tumor area is mainly performed with some specialized instruments.

Risks Involved in endoscopic surgery?

Each and every surgery then whether it is brain or heart has some risk involved. The neurosurgeons mainly educate their patients thoroughly about the treatment and taught them all the risk being involved with the surgery. Some of the risks are:

Permanent or some temporary interference with motor functions such as vision, speech, balance, etc

  • Bleeding
  • Blood clot 
  • Swelling
  • Seizure
  • Infection
  • Coma
  • Stroke

Benefits of Taking Endoscopic Surgery, Some of the benefits which you can avail are:

  • Reduce the stay of the patient in the hospital
  • Provide the recovery faster than the open brain surgery
  • Less risk of any side effects
  • Eliminate the risk of brain trauma
  • Less pain

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