Calvert County Woman Benefits From Precision-Guided Needle to Glue Shut Dangerous and Disfiguring Blood Vessel Growth
Friday, November 9, 2012 - 12:31
in Health & Medicine
Using a technique performed at Johns Hopkins but rarely elsewhere, imaging specialists and surgeons have successfully used precision, image-guided technology to glue shut a tangle of abnormal blood vessel growths in a 43-year-old woman's upper lip, face and nose. Surgery had earlier been ruled out because traditional approaches were considered too risky.