A surgery involving veterinary and human neurologists to remove a chimpanzee's spinal tumor is believed to be the first documented procedure of its kind. It was done on a 34-year-old chimpanzee at Zoo ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Zoo Knoxville said one of its chimpanzees is recovering well after he underwent historic spinal surgery to remove a tumor. The zoo said 34-year-old Mwelu has had no setbacks, and ...

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A Zoo Knoxville chimpanzee is recovering after a historic spinal surgery to remove a tumor. Workers with Zoo Knoxville said this operation is believed to be the first documented ...

Artist's illustration shows how surgeons at the University of Maryland Medical Center were able to remove a large spinal tumor that had invaded the patient's cervical spine and was pressing on her ...

In a first-of-its-kind procedure, clinicians at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore removed a rare spinal tumor through a patient’s eye socket. The patient, Karla Flores of Rosedale ...

Doctors at a Delhi hospital successfully removed a rare, half-apple-sized spinal tumor from an Uzbek patient in a complex two-stage surgery. The tumor ...

Pediatric gliomas are also known as childhood gliomas. They’re a type of tumor that can develop in a child’s central nervous system (CNS), including their brain or spinal cord. Gliomas are tumors that ...

An adult male chimpanzee is recovering well after undergoing ground-breaking spinal surgery to remove a tumor. Mwelu, 34, a resident at Zoo Knoxville in Tennessee, is 10 days into his recovery ...