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A craniotomy is a procedure that involves the surgical opening of the skull. Depending on the patient’s situation, a craniotomy can involve a large incision or a “keyhole” incision that is only a few centimeters long.
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Ameer's Story: Pituitary Tumor
Ameer's friends noticed the weight loss, and they kept asking him about it. Was he OK? Ameer wasn’t concerned at first. Then he began to notice that he couldn’t see people approaching him from the side. His peripheral vision was deteriorating. The third symptom landed him in the hospital. After getting up unusually late one morning and putting his shirt on backwards, he suffered a seizure. “Something was clearly wrong, and I knew I had to sit down,” Ameer recalls
