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Skull Base 360° Laboratory

Surgical Research and Training Facility

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The new pathways to 'inoperable' tumors

New Capabilities

Active surgical innovation center

A 19-year-old Maryland woman had a chordoma (striking only 300 Americans yearly) wrapped around her spine and spinal cord. The back approach meant paralysis, so surgeons cut through her eye socket (a first for spinal tumors) to extract the cancer without damaging her spinal cord, major blood vessels, or nerves controlling speech and swallowing.

Updated May 20