Imagine a life-threatening tumor nestled deep within your spine, so close to critical nerves that a single wrong move could change your life forever. For one young woman, this was not just a ...

Karla Flores was 18 when she started experiencing double vision. She knew something was wrong but struggled to find a diagnosis. Finally, she saw an ophthalmologist who referred her to a neurosurgeon.

In a first-of-its-kind surgery, a team led by a University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC) neurosurgeon has successfully removed a rare cancerous tumor wrapped around the spine and spinal cord of a ...

Just before the medical staff wheeled Karla Flores into the operating room so that surgeons could work inside her head for the third time in less than a month, the 19-year-old budding manicurist said ...

University of Mayland Medical Center neurosurgeon Dr. Mohamed A.M. Labib describes how surgeons were able to remove a rare bone tumor called a chordoma in the patient's cervical spine by threading ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Richard Menger is a neurosurgeon and a political scientist. A post-operative x-ray showing a spinal deformity correction for ...

A young Maryland woman is "relieved and recovering" after doctors performed a novel surgery to remove her potentially deadly cancerous tumors. A surgical team at the University of Maryland Medical ...

Johnson pieced together the story of Karla Flores’s eye socket surgery through more than a dozen interviews with the three surgeons, Flores and her family. In addition, the reporter was able to watch ...