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Dr. Vini G. Khurana MBBS, BSc(Med), PhD, FRACSStaff Specialist Neurosurgeon at The Canberra Hospital and Associate Professor City of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Dr Vini Gautam Khurana is a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He holds active medical registration with the Medical Boards of the Australian Capital Territory and the State of He is the only Australian medical graduate to have completed an entire neurosurgical training program, He is a specialist microsurgeon for "high-risk" brain conditions. |
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Specialty InterestsHis specialty interests in intracranial microsurgery include: |
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» Click here for images of recent operations and for more information about microsurgery for "high-risk" brain conditions" successfully treated by Dr Khurana and team » Click here for information regarding our Awake Craniotomy/ Awake Brain Surgery Program » Click here for a brain aneurysm image bank recently added to this Site at the request of Dr Khurana's brain aneurysm patients » Click here for more information about Neurosurgery services |
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Cerebrovascular Surgery: For the surgical treatment of brain aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and cavernous malformations (cavernoma) including those involving the brainstem; brain bypass surgery for symptomatic life-threatening carotid occlusion. Complex Brain Tumour Surgery: For tumours of the skull base (including acoustic neuroma or vestibular and trigeminal Schwannoma, pituitary adenoma, cranio-pharyngioma and meningioma), brainstem and craniocervical junction. Microvascular Decompression (MVD): For trigeminal neuralgia (tic douloureux), hemifacial spasm and glossopharyngeal neuralgia. Salvage Neurosurgery: Appropriate, aggressive surgery for "recurrent", "persistent" or "inoperable" brain tumours. Operating on astrocytoma or glioma as early as possible following diagnosis is a high priority as these tumours become more malignant with time -- "Observing" these types of tumours is not recommended by Dr Khurana. |
Microsurgery for "higher-risk" brain conditions: » Click here for images of high-risk brain conditions successfully treated by Dr Khurana and team. Minimal-Access Neurosurgery: Using advanced intraoperative image-guidance (heads-up neuronavigation) technology and unique, comprehensively validated operative approaches to optimise the accuracy and safety of neurosurgery, and to reduce incision and craniotomy sizes to the smallest and safest possible. Dr Khurana also utilises a "minimal-shave" technique for scalp incisions. He believes minimal-access surgical approaches logically allow for safer surgery, earlier and optimal recoveries, and shorter lengths of stay. Awake Brain Surgery-Awake Craniotomy: For CERTAIN (select) patients with tumours, aneurysms or vascular malformations in highly eloquent (highly functionally important) parts of the brain, Dr Khurana and team offer a specialised and successful Awake Brain Surgery/Awake Craniotomy Program as a means of obtaining as complete a resection as possible while having the patient awake, pain-free, comfortable and neurologically testable during ONLY the critical parts of the surgery. For all other parts of the operation, the patient is kept asleep. |
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