Aswan University hospitals remove skull-base tumor in patient unable to move for 18 months

A neurosurgery team at Aswan University hospitals has removed a meningioma at the base of the skull in a woman who had lost the ability to move for 18 months.

• The higher education ministry announced the removal of a skull-base meningioma in a woman in her thirties unable to move for 18 months.
• Surgeons used an operating microscope and a nerve-monitoring device to track neurological function during the procedure near the brainstem and spinal cord.
• The patient regained normal movement in both upper limbs and can eat and comb her hair unaided, with lower-limb movement improving gradually.