Brain Tips

A few Pune-based doctors have created history by successfully replacing 60 per cent of a four-year-old girl s damaged skull with a specially-made customised three-dimensional polyethylene bone.

This was reportedly the first ever skull implant surgery (also known as Cranioplasty) carried out in India. The 3D bone was made by a US-based firm as per the exact measurements and shape of the skull defect, which the little girl had sustained in a deadly car accident about a year ago.

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शरीर के अलग-अलग अंगों में होने वाले कैंसर को उसके नाम से ही जानते हैं. इसलिए ब्रेन कैंसर का मतलब कैंसर के उस रूप से है जो मस्तिष्क (ब्रेन) से शुरू होता है. ब्रेन कैंसर मस्तिष्क की एक प्रकार की बीमारी है, जिसमें मस्तिष्क के ऊतकों में कैंसर कोशिकाएं पैदा होने लगती हैं. कैंसर की कोशिकाएं मस्तिष्क में ऊतकों के समूह या एक ट्यूमर के रूप में ऊभरती हैं, जो मस्तिष्क के कार्यों में बाधा उत्पन्न करती हैं. जैसे मांसपेशियों के नियंत्रण में परेशानी, सनसनी, यादाश्त और अन्य मस्तिष्क कार्यों को प्रभावित करना. कै...more

Acoustic neuroma is the development of noncancerous and slow-growing tumors on the main, vestibular nerve that travels from the inner ear to the brain, connecting the two organs. They are also known as vestibular schwannoma, as it arises from Schwann cells covering the vestibular nerve. It rarely grows rapidly or attains a large enough size that can press against the brain and interfere with the vital functions of the brain. Since the tumor is benign, the patient can be assured that it won t spr...more

TYPES

Traumatic Brain Injury - Happens due to trauma
Anoxic/Hypoxic brain injury - Happens due to decreased blood or oxygen supply to the brain.
Ischemic or hemorrhagic cerebrovascular accident (commonly referred to as stroke) - Happens due to clots occluding the blood vessels in the brain or due to bleeding of blood vessels in the brain
Brain tumors and metastasis (spreading of cancer) to the brain
Vascular malformations of the brain such as Arteriovenous malformati...more

Brain tumours vary in shape and size and the same is the case with their symptoms. The location of the tumour affects the symptoms greatly. Just like in any other type of a malignant tumour, brain tumour has a rapid growth and proliferation of abnormal cells that may have its origin in affected site or areas adjacent to it. As per studies, every 2 in 1,00,000 people are said to be affected by brain tumour in India. However, it may come as a relief to some as not all brain tumors are cancerous or...more

Brain surgery involves several medical procedures, which incorporate fixing issues with the brain, including changes in the tissues of the brain, cerebrospinal fluid and brain blood flow. Brain surgery is quite a complicated method of surgery and the type of surgery to be conducted depends on the underlying conditions.

Reasons for Brain Surgery:
Brain surgery is performed for the correction of physical brain abnormalities. These abnormalities could occur because of diseases, birth d...more

Neurosurgery mainly deals with treating of functional disorders that affect the nerves, brain and muscles through major or minor surgery. The field of neurosurgery makes use of advanced surgical procedures. The different techniques are used to treat brain tumors, trauma to the head, cerebral hemorrhages, spinal disc herniation, brain aneurysms and peripheral neuropathy.

Neurosurgery Treatment
The main aim of neurosurgery treatment in patients suffering from stoke is to prevent neuro...more

A stroke may be called a brain attack. It may happen to any person at any time. A stroke occurs when blood supply to the brain is cut off. The brain cells become oxygen deprived due to the stroke and eventually die. Dead brain cells result in brain dysfunction due to which patients lose control over muscle and memory.

Strokes can be mild to life threatening and requires immediate medical attention. Stroke requires advanced care and should be treated by extensively qualified and experien...more

A stroke, also called cerebrovascular accident (CVA), cerebrovascular insult(CVI), or brain attack, occurs when a part of the brain is deprived of blood flow. When the brain cells are deprived of oxygen they begin to die. When brain cells die, the functions controlled by that part of the brain also stops, which results in different types of disabilities among stroke survivors.

There are two types of strokes

Hemorrhagic
Ischemic stroke
The first is caused when a brain an...more

Radiation therapy is used for destroying the brain tumor cells, and relieves the symptoms of discomfort and pain caused by the tumor. Radiation is usually used after biopsy or resection of the tumor. This is done to destroy the microscopic cells of the tumor which have been left behind. Sometimes this is also an option for unresectable brain tumors or the metastatic tumors which spread to the brain from other parts of the body.

The radiation therapy is planned on several factors like th...more