Skull-based meningiomas are one of the most technically challenging diseases in neurosurgery due to the close proximity of the tumor to critical neurovascular structures.
“It’s very exciting that academic medicine encourages new innovations making skull base surgery safer than ever before by maximizing tumor resection, complemented by significantly lowering the complication rates,” said Thakur, an assistant professor of neurosurgery at the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine.
The study, “Critical appraisal of minimally invasive keyhole surgery for intracranial meningiomas in a large case series,” breaks down the superior clinical outcomes and surgical techniques promoting a minimally invasive approach to skull base surgery. This approach focuses on smaller openings, yet an expanded surgical view, with the use of sophisticated technologies and processes but refrains from using rigid brain retraction.
Thakur won the Meningioma Research Gold Award amongst national and international research submissions after presenting the findings of this study at the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) / Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) Joint Section on Tumors meeting.
