Types of Brain Tumor Surgery

Does having a brain tumor mean a patient needs surgery?

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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