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Awake Craniotomy – Multimedia

Welcome to Dr Khurana’s Multimedia pages.

Images shown here are with the permission of Dr Khurana’s patients, for educational purposes.

For a nice, brief educational video of awake craniotomy teamwork, click the VIDEO 4 link, below.

This page has information about the following:

  • What is Dr Khurana’s experience with awake craniotomy patients?
  • Includes publicly available information on some of Dr Khurana’s awake surgeries (tumours, cavernoma, venous aneurysm).

Please see our Awake Craniotomy page for information about the following:

  • What is an awake craniotomy?
  • Why is an awake craniotomy carried out? i.e., What is its main advantage?
  • Is an awake craniotomy the right choice for me?
  • Are there any disadvantages of awake craniotomy?
  • Will I be in any pain during awake brain surgery? What can I expect?

What is Dr Khurana’s experience with awake craniotomy patients?

I was trained in neurosurgery and in awake craniotomy techniques at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota USA (1996-2005), and subsequently undertook a year-long fellowship subspecialisation in brain microsurgery at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix Arizona USA (2005-2006) under the pioneering neurosurgeon Dr Robert Spetzler.

I am one of a relatively small number of neurosurgeons worldwide who has a combination of expert training and experience in awake craniotomy techniques AND U.S. Fellowship training in brain microsurgery. I was the first neurosurgeon in Australia to publish their personal awake craniotomy operative series in the international peer-reviewed literature (2011), and also the first neurosurgeon in Australia to publish their personal microsurgical experience with fluorescence videoangiography during a variety of complex neurosurgical operations (2010).

Vini Khurana

Some of Dr Khurana’s relevant experience is presented here for educational purposes:

Miscellaneous / Other Topics:

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