Best hospitals and doctors for Gamma Knife for Brain Tumor in Kochi - Kerala, India

This is a type of radiation therapy used to treat tumors, vascular malformations and many other abnormalities in the brain. It is not a surgery in a sense because there is no incision. Rather, a special kind of equipment is used to focus about 200 tiny beams of radiation on a tumor or other target with submillimeter accuracy. Gamma Knife radiosurgery may have a lower risk of side effects compared with other types of radiation therapy and it can be done in one day in contrast to with up to 30 treatments with conventional radiation therapy.

• Brain tumor
• Arteriovenous malformation
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Acoustic neuroma
• Pituitary tumors