article_snippet.sent: Indeed, Dr Hrayr Shahinian, the expert at the Skullbase Institute in Los Angeles who operated on student Yamini Karanam, has removed around 7,000 brain tumours and has seen just two teratomas.
article_snippet.sent: It led student Yamini Karanam to the Skullbase Institute and Dr Shahinian, who has developed a minimally-invasive way of reaching deep into a person's brain to extract tumours.
article_snippet.sent: The procedure, a person said, is a type of keyhole surgery rather than traditional brain surgery, which involves opening the skull and using metal retractors to allow a person to insert a microscope deep into the brain.
article_snippet.sent: Instead, Dr Shahinian makes a half-inch incision in the brain to use fibre-optic technology and digital imagery to gently chisel away at the tumour.
article_snippet.sent: There's a minimally invasive approach in which they won't kill you, they won't leave you with a disability.'
article_snippet.sent: Dr Shahinian added: 'We want to be in and out without the brain knowing We were there, and I think that's the beauty of this technique.'