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.