Unlike conventional surgery:

• Treatment with the Gamma Knife requires no surgical incision.
• There is minimal patient discomfort.  
• Prolonged hospital stays for recovery from radiosurgery are NOT required.

Gamma Knife radiosurgery can treat brain tumors and vascular malformations while sparing adjacent healthy, normal brain tissues.  This is due to the ability of the Gamma Knife to focus a large number of radiation beams on a precisely defined target volume.

Because of the very rapid fall-off of radiation dose outside the target volume with radiosurgery, the surrounding brain tissue receives very little radiation exposure.  This extreme localization of radiation dose to within the target volume greatly reduces the risks of Gamma Knife radiosurgery compared to conventional radiation treatment or brain surgery.

The radiosurgery treatment itself typically lasts less than an hour and involves minimal patient discomfort.  Patients are typically discharged after a brief hospital stay and can resume pre-surgery type activities within a short period of time.

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