Gamma Knife Beam surgery is a non-surgical neurosurgery method that was first used in our country by Professor Turker Kilic in 1997 and performed with precision of one-eighth of a millimeter.

Bahcesehir University Faculty of Medicine founding Dean Professor Türker Kılıç used Gamma Knife icon with the health of nearly 12,000.

The most important reason for the success of Professor Turker Kilic and his team, who personally perform the treatment of the highest number of patients in our country, is that the same team can perform both Gamma Knife and microsurgery.

Brain tumors, pituitary adenomas, meningiomas, cavernomas and trigeminal neuralgia are successful in many conditions.

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Gamma Knife treatment, pronounced “Gamma Nayf” in Turkish, is a brain surgery method performed with only one session gamma ray application without surgery.

Gamma Knife and microsurgery are two different methods and one is not used in place of the other. In some cases, these two surgical methods should be used together in order for the treatment to give a positive result. For this reason, it is very important that the surgeon who applies Gamma Knife and performs microsurgery is the same person. In 95% of the centers that perform ray surgery worldwide, the people who use Gamma Knife and perform the surgery are different.these two applications, which complement each other in Istanbul Göztepe Medical Park, under the leadership of Professor Türker Kılıç, are performed by the same surgeons who specialize in both fields. In this way, the conditions in which traditional microsurgery and Gamma Knife can be used together are evaluated holistically and a treatment plan is drawn up accordingly.

WHY THE GAMMA KNIFE?

• Radiation surgery applied without opening the skull is a method that provides you with treatment certainty.
• The day following the surgery, you can continue your work and social life from where you left off.
• General anesthesia is not used during treatment and therefore you are free from the risks that may arise.
• You can be discharged on the same day as you will be in the hospital for a day.
• Because you will not stay in the hospital for a long time and can return to work immediately, the cost of treatment is reduced.
• The risk of death from treatment is less than 0.1%, the risk of permanent disability from treatment is less than 2%, and the risk of temporary disability from treatment is less than 3%.

What is Gamma Knife treatment?

   Gamma Knife, which is a quick and easy treatment method to use, is a treatment performed with precision Gamma ray application in a single session. It is summarized as a ray surgery system used in the treatment of brain-pituitary tumors and vascular diseases.

   In this treatment method, a large number of (192) low energy beams are directed to the diseased area inside the skull with millimetric precision. This provides high energy in the sick area. Gamma Knife is a system of therapeutic use of the creation of genetic and biological changes in tissue. Due to the use of a large number of low-energy beams, no damage to the brain tissue through which the heat passes occurs.

How is the Gamma Knife Applied? What are the Stages of Gamma Knife Treatment?

First, the head of the patient is fixed with the treatment frame. This issue is very important in order to direct the heat to the right point for the treatment to be successful. In line with this procedure, local anesthesia is applied to the points where the frame sits on the head so that the patient does not feel pain.

During the image acquisition phase, MR and angiography images of the patient are taken if necessary.

With the help of special programs used on the images, the physician makes the necessary planning for the diseased area. Once the planned treatment phase is completed, the treatment phase begins.

The coordinates reached as a result of the planning are determined and the necessary position is given to the frame. Then the application is explained to the patient. Beam treatment is started on the patient sliding towards the inside of the machine. After each beam is applied to the diseased area in the required time, the patient is removed from the machine and the frame at the head is taken.

During the treatment, no pain and the patient who does not feel you are discharged by telling the necessary suggestions.

Which Diseases Is Gamma Knife Used For?

With radiation surgery, both malignant and benign brain tumors can be treated. Gamma Knife ray surgery can be used on meningiomas, pituitary adenomas, acoustic neurinomas, brain metastases, glial tumors and many more tumors.

Thanks to Gamma Knife technology, many different ailments can also be treated. The main areas of use are vascular brain diseases (arteriovenous malformations and cavernomas) and functional brain diseases (trigeminal neurated, parkinsonism epilepsy).

In order to use Gamma Knife beam surgery, the tumor diameter must be less than 35-40 mm. The effect of treatment is seen in malignant tumors within 2-3 months and in vascular diseases within 1-2 years.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TREATMENTS?

The Differences between Gamma Knife and Radiotherapy.

With Gamma Knife Beam surgery, tissue is reached with anatomical selectivity. In this surgical method, only diseased tissues are exposed to gamma rays. This will not damage the healthy tissues in the surrounding area. In addition to the tumor targeted in conventional radiotherapy radiation treatment, the surrounding healthy tissues are exposed to light and destruction occurs.

The amount of energy used in the treatment of 30 sessions of a normal brain tumor is realized in just minutes with the Gamma Knife method. In this way, the patient is treated only once instead of many sessions.

The margin of error in anatomical selectivity remains as low as 0.2 mm. Gamma Knife, one of the methods of brain surgery and a type of surgery, takes its name from this anatomical selectivity.