A tumour inside a woman’s head was removed using keyhole surgery through her eye socket for the first time ever in the UK. Ruvimbo Kaviya had a meningioma sitting in the space beneath the brain and ...

The groundbreaking operation will give new hope to patients whose cancers were previously seen as inoperable because of where the tumours are situated.

A mother-of-three has become the first person in the UK to have a brain tumour removed through a hole in her eye socket ... of where is it situated in an area called the cavernous sinus.

It's a hard-to-reach area, and this allows direct access without any compromise of pressure on the brain." It included cutting a small part of the outer wall of the eye socket for better access.

If you don’t feel able to cope with it, the ward can arrange a district nurse to visit you at home. Always wash your hands before you touch the area around your empty socket. Don’t touch the eye ...

“Going through the eye socket gets into the same area and it’s a way more elegant ... I had no option to agree because the pain was just too much – I didn’t even think about it being ...

A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery. Ruvimbo Kaviya, 40, from Leeds, had a meningioma removed ...

For the first time in the UK, surgeons have performed a ground-breaking surgery to remove a tumour through a patient’s eye socket. As per Sky News ... Ruvimbo Kaviya, a 40-year-old mother of three ...

Surgeons at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have achieved a UK-first by successfully removing a tumour through the eye socket. Ruvimbo Kaviya, aged 40 ... began in 2023 after experiencing ...