Surgeons at Tel Aviv Sourasky (Ichilov) removed a skull-base brain tumor through the patient’s eye socket—no craniotomy, no brain retraction. The multidisciplinary team used a tiny incision in the upper eyelid and an endoscopic transorbital route; the young patient recovered quickly with vision preserved.
Hospital leaders say the novelty is the access path: surgeons reached the tumor via the eyelid rather than opening the skull, cutting trauma and shortening recovery. “People recoil at opening the skull; this offers a safe alternative,” said Prof. Yigal Leibovitz, who led the eye-care side alongside neurosurgery and ENT.
Ichilov, a national neurosurgical hub, has been expanding minimally invasive skull-base techniques; this case brings to Israel a transorbital approach already gaining traction in leading centers worldwide for selected lesions.
The Ichilov team trained abroad and planned the procedure in detail before executing it, underscoring that the method is for carefully chosen tumors such as spheno-orbital meningiomas.
Israel now offers a cosmetically subtle, brain-sparing corridor for complex skull-base tumors—an upgrade that can mean faster recovery, fewer complications, and more patients saying “yes” to treatment when open-skull surgery once scared them off.
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