Surgical Product Guide » University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center http://blog.surgicalproductguide.com A comprehensive guide to surgical products for medical professionals Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:37:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 UPMC Treats 10,000th Patient With Leksell Gamma Knife Radiosurgery System http://blog.surgicalproductguide.com/2009/12/30/upmc-treats-10000th-patient-with-leksell-gamma-knife-radiosurgery-system/ http://blog.surgicalproductguide.com/2009/12/30/upmc-treats-10000th-patient-with-leksell-gamma-knife-radiosurgery-system/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 12:30:23 +0000 admin http://www.surgicalproductguide.com/blog/?p=190 University Of Pittsburgh Medical CenterUniversity Of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) physicians used Gamma Knife® surgery to treat the center’s 10,000th patient, an 81-year-old male with a tumor deep in his brainstem, a site where traditional surgery would have been impossible. Gamma Knife surgery is performed using Elekta’s Leksell Gamma Knife system, which directs up to 201 pencil-thin beams of therapeutic radiation precisely on brain tumors and other targets in the head.

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