Donna,
I have gone through Gamma Knife Surgery (stereotactic radiation) at the
University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA. The doctor
who oversees the surgery is Dr. Ladislau Steiner, one of the two
inventors of the Gamma Knife, and the foremost expert on stereotactic
radiation in the country. If you want more information on my
experience, I'd be glad to provide it. If you want more information on
the procedure, you can go to their web site (see below), or you can
contact the person below. Please feel free to use my name as your
source, and that my surgery (that's what they call it even though it is
a non-invasive type surgery) was May 22, 1997; treatment was for tumor
in the pituitary sella (brain tumor). As one doctor says, this type of
radiation is "so precise, it can nick an atom off the eyelid of a flea!"
Please keep us posted as to your progress.
Nonie Waller (see below)
Sophie Lee Yu
Administrative Director for Gamma Knife Surgery
Lars Leksell Center for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
Charlottesville, VA 222908
804 924-5733, 804 924-5842
e-mail: ls9e@virginia.edu
http://hopi.neuro.virginia.edu/
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