Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine has added new technology to support more complex procedures as part of its recently developed brain and pituitary tumor program.
Michael Caron, MD, a neurosurgeon at Northwestern Medicine McHenry (Ill.) Hospital, began to develop a brain and pituitary tumor program after joining the neurosurgery program at the hospital in August 2022.
Northwestern then invested in a new navigation system, an operative microscope, a tumor ultrasonic aspiration instrument and ENT instruments and endoscopes to facilitate the first trans nasal endoscopic resection.
A multispecialty team consisting of neurosurgeons, neurologists, ENT specialists and other providers recently completed the hospital's first endoscopic pituitary tumor removal, according to a March 13 news release.
The hospital said it will soon develop a formal brain tumor clinic.