A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery. Ruvimbo Kaviya, 40, from Leeds, had a meningioma removed ...

In a U.K. medical first, 40-year-old Ruvimbo Kaviya successfully underwent a procedure to remove a tumor through her eye socket. Kaviya was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2023. Before the diagnosis, ...

Ruvimbo Kaviya, a mother of three, had surgery to remove a meningioma from the space located beneath the brain and behind the eyes ...

He said before this new keyhole technique, the area that needed to be operated on was “difficult to get to from the outside without taking off most of the skull plate”, which in itself can ...

Previously, an operation to remove such a tumour in the same part of the head would require complex brain surgery, involving taking a large part of the skull away and risking complications.

A nurse has become the first person in the UK to undergo an operation that saw a tumour removed through her eye socket using keyhole surgery ... a large part of the skull away and risking ...