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Minimally Invasive Brain Surgery

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SOURCES: 2008 Medical Reference from Medstar. Khaled Aziz, MD, PhD, Neurosurgeon, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.

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Bettie Saunders (Sawn-ders) loves a good laugh

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Believe it or not, she's still recovering from the health scare of a lifetime.

Bettie Saunders:

He said, 'Let's go in for an MRI because you're special.' And I'm like 'I know I am honey.' So he sent me down for an MRI and that's when they found out that I had a ping pong ball-sized tumor in my head.

Khaled Aziz, M.D., Ph.D.:

She presented with headache and she had some problems with her smell. And she had memory disturbances. And it was found that she had about one and half inch tumor sitting on the skull base on the front causing some brain swelling around it.

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Bettie's tumor was benign but it had to come out. The good news? Doctor Aziz helped pioneer a new minimially-invasive technique designed for tumors like bettie's. He removes them through the eyelid.

Khaled Aziz, M.D., Ph.D.:

That's the tumor here. That's the nose and what we do is that we go underneath the brain.

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With just a small amount of the brow bone taken out to make room, bettie's tumor was completely removed through a small incision in her eyelid. This is Bettie right after surgery, where the swelling is obvious. This is Bettie's eye just two months since her surgery. The scar is barely visible.

Bettie Saunders:

All my muscles work, I can move my eyes just like I could before.

Khaled Aziz, M.D., Ph.D.:

Definitely it's less pain. It's a smaller incision. Cosmetically it's much better because you don't have any problems with the muscles here. So it's when it, when it's done in the proper way, it has an excellent cosmetic results

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Doctor Aziz is also using this technique to remove life-threatening brain aneurysms in select patients. For WebMD, I'm Sandee LaMotte

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