Surgeons at Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a technique that creates a “fence” of sutures around massive nerve tumors before removal, dramatically improving safety for patients with plexiform neurofibromas that can grow larger than footballs. The FENCY ligation method, combined with preoperative blood vessel blocking, has shown promising results in 11 patients with giant … Read more
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