The difference between the Head Gamma Knife and the Body Gamma Knife

What is the difference between Head Gamma Knife and Body Gamma Knife? The "Gamma Knife" is not actually a real scalpel, it is named because it functions like a scalpel, and has the advantages of no trauma, no need for general anesthesia, no surgery, no bleeding and no infection. Since the gamma knife is divided into the head gamma knife and the body gamma knife, of course, there is a difference.

Head Gamma Knife is suitable for:

1. Head tumors: including pituitary tumors and craniopharyngiomas. Meningioma, pineal gland tumor, chordoma, trigeminal schwannoma, angioreticuloma, glioma, brain metastases (of which gamma knife is preferred for 5-10 metastases in the head**), nasopharyngeal carcinoma, etc., and is also suitable for tumors located in functional areas and with greater surgical risk and residual tumors after craniotomy.

Kuang Shan, Department of Radiation Oncology, No. 309 Hospital of the People's Liberation Army.

2.Cerebrovascular diseases: mainly intracranial arteriovenous malformations, especially small and medium-sized arteriovenous malformations and deep arteriovenous malformations.

3.Dysfunctional diseases: mainly trigeminal neuralgia, epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, etc.

Of course, Gamma Knife can also be considered in the following situations**: It is feasible to use Gamma Knife for patients with cranial diseases who are old and frail, in poor physical condition, and cannot tolerate craniotomy.

The body gamma knife is mainly used for various tumors throughout the body. For example, lung cancer, liver cancer, liver hemangioma, pancreatic cancer, adrenal cancer, esophageal cancer, cardia cancer, rectal cancer, bladder cancer, cervical cancer, pelvic metastasis and bone tumors.

The head gamma knife can only do the tumor of the head, the body gamma knife is widely used and can do the whole body tumor, your situation can only do the body gamma knife, the effect is good.

There are three possibilities: 1. The most likely, intracranial edema reaction.

2. The dose given by the Gamma Knife physician was insufficient, the tumor was not controlled, and the brain was blindly squeezed into the medial side of the cerebellar angle, causing hearing loss and dizziness on the affected side.

3. Other diseases.

Whichever possibility is grinding, you can see it at a glance when you take an MRI.

1. If it is intracranial edema, use dehydration machine and hormone**.

2. If the dose is insufficient and the tumor continues to grow, gamma knife can be performed here**.

3. Other diseases may not be large, but they need to be excluded by imaging.

In the eyes of ordinary people, if there is a tumor in the brain, it is inevitable to undergo surgery**. However, half a century ago, Dr. Lekcell, a Swedish neurosurgeon, invented the world's first head gamma knife** system and proposed a new discipline called stereotactic radiosurgery. Since then, neurosurgery has gradually developed into a field of minimally traumatic and less painful.

The body gamma knife is one of the gamma knife equipment, the body gamma knife is a gamma ray stereotactic radiosurgery system in Shanming, it is not a real scalpel, it is a fusion of stereotactic technology and radiosurgery technology in a clear body, following the head gamma knife after the stereotactic radiosurgery equipment based on body diseases.