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Article: Pioneering Brain Malformation Treatment Performed Using Novalis Tx™ Radiosurgery Technology in India.
- Article from:
- Cancer Weekly
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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A 17-year-old female with a complex arteriovenous malformation of the brain has become the first person in India to be treated using the fast Novalis Tx™ radiosurgery platform from Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) and BrainLAB. Doctors at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai performed the pioneering stereotactic radiosurgery treatment in a single session that took just a few minutes to complete (see also Arteriovenous Malformation).
"The patient's malformation, which was near the motor cortex on the right side of the brain, had been partially embolized and it was considered that no further treatment was possible," says Dr. Ram K. Narain, the ...