Gamma Clinic
About clinic
Gamma Clinic is located in Obninsk and is Center for High-Precision Radiology. Clinic performs operations on Gamma Knife device. This is a radiosurgical unit for the treatment of benign and malignant tumors and vascular malformations in the cranial cavity.
Surgery is performed without skin incisions and craniotomy. For this, radioactive radiation from 196 sources of cobalt-60 is used, the beams of which are collected together and act like a non-invasive surgical knife.
They destroy the DNA of tumor cells, while healthy brain tissue and the entire body are not irradiated. Treatment is limited to one session, as a result of which the genetic apparatus of tumor cells is damaged, they lose their ability to divide and further increase the tumor mass.
What is treated in Gamma Clinic
- Tumors
- Brain metastases
- Meningiomas
- Acoustic neuromas
- Neurinomas of other cranial nerves
- Pituitary adenomas
- Hemangioblastoma
- Paragangliomas
- Craniopharyngeoma
- Gliomas
- Vascular malformations
- Arteriovenous malformations
- Cavernous angiomas (cavernomas)
- Functional
- Trigeminal neuralgia
