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Gamma Knife Center, Cairo

The Cairo Gamma Knife Center has been in operation since June 2001. It uses the Gamma Knife to perform a procedure called radiosurgery. This is used in the treatment of diseases of the brain.Read more….

Gamma Knife Treatment, What are the Steps and the procedure:

1- Registration

You will be required to get all available investigations which should include at least a recent Brain MRI with contrast.

The available investigations will be reviewed and if any other investigation was required, you will be asked to prepare it.

2- Out patient clinic appointment Read more…

Tell me more about Gamma Knife Radiosurgery?

Gamma Knife is a method of treatment called radiosurgery.but what is radiosurgery?

Radiosurgery

Radiosurgery was invented by a Swedish Professor of Neurosurgery in 1951. It was he who first used the word radiosurgery. Dr. Leksell had a more than usually detailed education in how the nervous system worked and he thought that many operations did not show the brain the respect due to such .Read more..

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Gamma Knife Indications

Metastatic Brain Tumors

Gamma Knife Related Information	Acoustic Neuroma
Elekta : Gamma Knife Manufacturer	Acoustic Neuroma Association
Leksell Gamma Knife Society	Acoustic Neuroma World
American Brain Tumor Association (ABTA)	Trigeminal Neuralgia
Society for Neuroscience	Trigeminal Neuralgia Association
American Cancer Society	facial-neuralgia
National Brain Tumor Society
International Radiosurgery Support Association (IRSA)