Neurosurgery
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About Gamma Knife Treatment
Providing Hope to Patients and Their Families
Gamma knife technology is consistently regarded as the best noninvasive treatment for brain disorders. Benefits include:
- Targeted treatment of previously inaccessible areas
- High cure rate
- Delivery of maximum dose to target area
- Low risk of damage to nearby healthy tissue
- Low morbidity
- Painless treatment
- Return home the same day
- High patient satisfaction and quality of life
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The Gamma Knife Center at Rhode Island Hospital offers the Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion, the most advanced stereotactic radiosurgery technology available.
Gamma Knife Outcomes
- Tumors show an effective response in 85 to 98 percent of cases.
- In more than 80 percent of patients treated for AVMs, the AVMs disappear completely within two years.