CONDITIONS TREATED
Gamma Knife can be used to treat patients suffering from a wide range of brain disorders:
| Disease | Symptoms |
| Metastatic Brain Tumors: | Headaches usually worsen when lying down, balance disturbances, cognitive changes, weakness/numbness in arms or legs, seizure, and unusual vomiting or visual changes. |
| Malignant Brain Tumors: Glioblastoma Multiformi (GBM), Astrocytomea, Oligodendrogleoma. | Cognitive changes, balance disturbances, seizures, headaches, and various other symptoms depending on tumor location. |
| Meningiomas: Benign brain tumors. Can be malignant. | Headaches, balance disturbances, personality changes, seizures, and various other symptoms depending on tumor location. |
| Acoustic Neuroma: Benign tumor on ear nerve. | Hearing loss usually in one ear, balance disturbances, ringing in ears, headaches, and facial problems. Symptoms usually appear between age 30 - 60. |
| Pituitary Adenomas: Benign tumors | Vision loss/double vision, hormonal imbalances (e.g., giantism), difficulty with eye movements, and fatigue. |
| Trigeminal Neuralgia (TIC): Disorder of the 5th cranial nerve involving part or all of one side of the face. | Intermittent, lancinating facial pain usually involving one side of the face. (gums/teeth, side of nose, forehead) |
| Intracranial Arteriovenous Malformations (AVMs): Defects in the circulatory system composed of a tangle of arteries and veins believed to be congenital, rarely due to injury. | Cerebral hemorrhage, seizures, severe headaches, neurological deficits. Patients commonly diagnosed between 20-40 years of age. AVMs that hemorrhaged once are at high risk of another bleed in the year after the first bleed. |