Patients with brain tumors must be operated on in a magnetic camera
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- 09 Sep 2022
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Now Scania University Hospital Lund, within the framework of routine healthcare, is now also starting to use lasers to gently heat treat smaller, deep-seated brain tumors so that they are destroyed.
The plan is for the first treatment in routine healthcare for a patient with a brain tumor to be carried out now in September.
Several other university hospitals in Sweden already offer the treatment, where you can follow the heat development in real time with the help of a magnetic camera to make sure that you do not damage surrounding structures.
Skåne University Hospital Lund is, however, the first in the country to let the patient lie inside a magnetic camera during the entire procedure - that is, even when the probe to be used in the treatment is brought down to the right place in the brain via a small hole drilled in the skull.
- In other hospitals, the operation itself is done in the operating room. Then you either roll a magnetic camera to the patient in the operating room or move the patient to a magnetic camera to see that the probe is in the right place, says Hjálmar Bjartmarz, neurosurgeon at the hospital.
The new method, which was taken from the USA, is both more accurate and safer for the patient, according to Hjálmar Bjartmarz.
- For me as a surgeon, this means that I can be completely sure that the probe I insert into the brain ends up exactly right. If necessary, I can adjust the position step by step, without having to move the patient or take out things that otherwise risk flying into the magnetic camera in order to take a new image, says Hjálmar Bjartmarz and continues:
- Transporting the anesthetized patient back and forth naturally involves a risk. Thanks to the fact that we can operate while the patient is in the magnetic camera, the method becomes safer for the patient. We can also immediately see if all the tumor tissue has disappeared. Read More…
