A surgery involving veterinary and human neurologists to remove a chimpanzee's spinal tumor is believed to be the first documented procedure of its kind. It was done on a 34-year-old chimpanzee at Zoo ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Zoo Knoxville said one of its chimpanzees is recovering well after he underwent historic spinal surgery to remove a tumor. The zoo said 34-year-old Mwelu has had no setbacks, and ...

An adult male chimpanzee is recovering well after undergoing ground-breaking spinal surgery to remove a tumor. Mwelu, 34, a resident at Zoo Knoxville in Tennessee, is 10 days into his recovery ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Zoo Knoxville chimpanzee is recovering after a historic spinal surgery to remove a tumor. Workers with Zoo Knoxville said this operation is believed to be the first documented ...

Doctors at a Delhi hospital successfully removed a rare, half-apple-sized spinal tumor from an Uzbek patient in a complex two ...

Artist's illustration shows how surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center were able to remove a large spinal tumor that had invaded the patient's cervical spine and was pressing on her ...

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, clinicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore removed a rare spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket. The patient, Karla Flores of Rosedale ...

Pediatric gliomas are also known as childhood gliomas. They’re a type of tumor that can develop in a child’s central nervous system (CNS), including their brain or spinal cord. Gliomas are tumors that ...

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