Gamma Knife

Gamma Knife

Gamma Knife is a one-session non-surgical radio surgery treatment used in neurosurgery. Gamma Knife gives effective results in many difficult-to-treat diseases and tumors such as brain tumors, metastases, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, and cavernomas. Gamma Knife and Microsurgery are different methods from each other, usually using them in combination with treatments gives sharp successful results. Gamma Knife is different from radiotherapy, it does not harm the healthy tissues around the diseased tissues as radiotherapy.

Gamma Knife’s main areas of use are brain tumors, vascular brain diseases, and functional brain diseases.

Gamma Knife creates a change in the diseased tissue by directing a large number of low-energy rays that do not harm the brain tissue to the diseased area in the brain. With this created change, the diseased tissue is treated.

With Gamma Knife, definitive treatment is provided without opening the skull, you can be discharged on the same day and return to your daily life. There is no need to use anesthesia, so anesthesia does not have negative effects. No pain and no recovery process.

Gamma Knife is effective in both benign and malignant brain tumors. Gamma Knife is the gold standard of stereotaxic surgery, it is destroyed by sending gamma rays to the diseased brain tissue whose coordinates are determined. Since it is applied without anesthesia, it can be applied to people of all ages. During the application, the patient is awake and does not feel pain. Its effects vary according to the diseased tissue, sometimes it can take a few months and sometimes a few years.