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What are the side effects of Gamma Knife treatment?

April 26, 2017Gamma Knife treatment

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What are the side effects of Gamma Knife treatment?

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These all depend upon the area of the brain of a patient’s pathology. In general, we have a 6% risk of temporary neurologic deficit, and a 3% risk of permanent neurologic deficit. This means that 97% of the treatments using Gamma Knife have no permanent side effects at all. These statistics are far superior to those of open craniotomy (brain surgery) for similar pathologies.