First-of-its-kind brain tumor surgery conducted in Kuwait - ARAB TIMES
Messenger KUWAIT CITY, Jan 17: In its first attempt, Kuwait conducted a successful surgery to completely remove a tumor in the brain of a 15-year-old girl who was suffering from a tumor called Schwannoma, reports Al-Qabas daily. The surgery took place in Ibn Sina Hospital, and was conducted by Dr. Muhammad Al-Manabri, Dr. Abdullah Al-Shawish and Dr. Darajan Safik, and the anesthesiologist was Dr. Khaled Salah. This tumor grows in the sheaths of nerves in the peripheral nervous system, or the parts of the nervous system that are not in the brain or spinal cord. The girl had started to suffer f...
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