Gamma Knife Treatment Center

The Gamma Knife Treatment Center of the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University currently has 8 beds and is one of the first units in China to introduce the Swedish Leksell Gamma Knife. There are currently 15 medical staff, including 2 professors, 4 chief physicians, 2 deputy chief physicians, 1 chief technician, and 1 deputy chief nurse. In 2014, the world's most advanced LeksellPerfexion gamma knife was introduced. A total of more than 16,300 patients at home and abroad have been treated. It has rich clinical experience in gamma knife treatment and minimally invasive neurosurgery treatment of brain tumors, cerebral vascular malformations, trigeminal neuralgia and other diseases, especially the gamma knife treatment technology for orbital diseases. It has the most complete range of diseases and the largest number of cases, making it unique in the world. It has won 3 second prizes for Tianjin Science and Technology Progress Award, 1 second prize for Tianjin Medical University Science and Technology Achievements, 15 new technologies have filled gaps in Tianjin, won 8 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, published more than 80 high-level papers, and more than 20 papers have been included in SCI. The Gamma Knife Center of the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University is one of the earliest units in the country to introduce the new Gamma Knife system produced in Sweden. It is also the only Gamma Knife treatment, teaching and research center in Tianjin.As of the beginning of 2021, nearly 16,000 patients with craniocerebral diseases from home and abroad have been successfully treated. Gamma Knife is vividly called "treating brain tumors without surgery." The Gamma Knife Center of the Second Hospital of Tianjin Medical University has well-known domestic radiation neurosurgery experts, neuroimaging experts, and radiation therapy experts as consultants. It is chaired by neurosurgery experts with rich clinical experience and who studied Gamma Knife radiosurgery technology in Sweden. It has a well-trained medical team. The center has always adhered to a rigorous scientific style, focusing on neurosurgery and a multidisciplinary expert collaboration consultation system. Now, they are using strict formal management, serious and responsible attitude, and patient-first service tenet to provide patients with satisfactory treatment. Indications for Gamma Knife: Vascular diseases: cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM), cavernous hemangioma, orbital varicose veins, arteriovenous fistula. Brain Tumor:Acoustic neuroma, meningioma, brain metastases, pituitary tumor, glioma, medulloblastoma, central nervous system lymphoma, hemangiopericytoma, trigeminal schwannoma, facial schwannoma, germ cell tumor, chordoma, craniopharyngeal duct tumors, pineal region tumors, hemangioreticuloma, melanoma, nasopharyngeal tumors, neurofibromatosis type II, glomus jugular tumor, hypothalamic hamartoma, various orbital tumors, residual tumors after brain tumor surgery and postoperative recurrent tumors, etc. Single or multiple lesions can be treated. Functional neurosurgery diseases: trigeminal neuralgia, intractable cluster headache, intractable pain, intractable epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder, etc.