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The Brain Tumor Center

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Types of Brain Tumor Surgery

Does having a brain tumor mean a patient needs surgery?

Video: Does Having a Brain Tumor Mean a Patient Needs ...

Jon Weingart, MD, discusses whether having a brain tumor means a patient needs surgery. Dr Weingart is a neurosurgeon and professor of Neurological Surgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins Medicine.

Date: 01/27/2011

Surgery is one type of treatment for brain tumors. The most common types of surgery performed for brain tumors at the Johns Hopkins Comprehensive Brain Tumor Center are:

Biopsy
Craniotomy
- Extended bifrontal craniotomy
- "Eyebrow" craniotomy (supra-orbital craniotomy)
- "Keyhole" craniotomy (retro-sigmoid craniotomy)
- Orbitozygomatic craniotomy
- Translabyrinthine craniotomy
Endonasal endoscopy (endonasal endoscopic surgery)
Neuroendoscopy

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