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Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib

Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Maryland

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Notable Quotes

"By going through the bottom of the eye socket, we were able to remove a tumor that otherwise would have been very difficult and very risky to address. Trying to reach it from the back could have risked damaging the spinal cord." - On the pioneering surgery

Stories

The new pathways to 'inoperable' tumors

New Capabilities

Lead surgeon on first transorbital spinal tumor removal

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