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The Cancer Institute at Good Samaritan Medical Center

Gamma Knife® PerfexionTM
A non-invasive alternative to conventional brain surgery
 
Gamma Knife® surgery is recognized as the preferred treatment for brain tumors, arteriovenous malformations and brain dysfunctions such as trigeminal neuralgia. Our Gamma Knife—one of the few in Florida—isn’t really a knife at all. Instead, a set of micro-precision radiation beams are designed to attack only the tumor and leave surrounding healthy tissue intact. Gamma Knife surgery represents a major advance in brain surgery. The benefits of the Gamma
Knife include:
  • A completely noninvasive procedure  
  • No blades  
  • No incisions
  • Patients experience little discomfort
  • No bleeding
  • No anesthesia needed  

    The Gamma Knife is designed to eliminate the days of hospitalization and weeks of rehabilitation—as well as many of the risks—of conventional surgery. In some cases it may also enable the treatment of otherwise inaccessible tumors.
     
    Leksell Gamma Knife® PERFEXION™Leksell Gamma Knife® PERFEXION™
     
    Our recently installed Leksell Gamma Knife® PERFEXION™ is designed to reduce treatment times associated with gamma knife surgery and while broadening both the techniques and the scope of treatments
                                              
     
                                                        
                                                     



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