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MINC Videos

Learn more about the surgical experts at MINC and their innovative treatments.

Expanded Endonasal Approach (EEA) / Neuroendoscopic Surgery
The Minimally Invasive Approach to Brain Surgery The Minimally Invasive Approach
Dr. Kassam discusses the minimally invasive approach
to brain tumor removal.
Courtesy NBC-TV
Format: Quicktime
Expanded Endonasal Approach  Expanded Endonasal Approach
Drs. Carl Snyderman and Amin Kassam discuss techniques and advantages of accessing brain tumors through the nose.
Format: RealPlayer 
EEA Web Cast  EEA Webcast
Drs. Kassam and Snyderman discuss safety and effectiveness of endoscopic endonasal brain surgery in pediatric cases.
Courtesy or-live.com
Format: RealPlayer
Endonasal Brain Surgery  Endonasal Brain Surgery
WQED-TV news magazine show chronicles use of endonasal neurosurgery.
Courtesy WQED-TV Pittsburgh
Format: Windows Media Player
Endonasal Brain Surgery  Endonasal Brain Surgery
A patient relates how the minimally invasive approach allowed her to avoid disfiguring surgery.
Courtesy Ivanhoe News
Format: Quicktime
Treating a Brain Aneurysm Treating a Brain Aneurysm
Health reporter Marilyn Brooks profiles how MINC's unique approach allowed Dr. Kassam and a five-member surgical team to extract a life-threatening brain aneurysm through the patient's nose.
Courtesy WTAE-TV
Format: Quicktime
CT Scanner for advanced brain and spine procedures  OR 12
360° photo of state-of-the-art UPMC Presby operating room equipped with CT Scanner for advanced brain and spine procedures.
Format: Quicktime
Tour the Endonasal Surgical Suite Tour the Endonasal Surgical Suite
Format: Quicktime
Awake Craniotomy 
Awake Craniotomy   Awake Craniotomy 
Dr. Mintz performs brain tumor surgery on an awake patient.
Courtesy Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
Format: Windows Media Player
 
Neuroendovascular Surgery
Life Saving Surgery

Life-saving Surgery
Michael Horowitz, MD, led a surgical team that operated on a young Ecuadorian man with an intercranial aneurysm.
Courtesy WZBN TV-25.
Format: Flash Player

Endovascular Embolization Endovascular Embolization
Michael Horowitz, MD, narrates footage of aneurysm
coiling, which may be used to treat vascular problems
within the brain.
Format: RealPlayer
Brain Coiling Brain Coiling
Michael Horowitz, MD, discusses how the use of miniature coils -- resembling a Slinky -- are used to seal off brain aneurysms.
Courtesy WTAE-TV
Format: RealPlayer
Image Fusion Seeing Around Corners
The use of a new optical technique, known as image fusion, allows MINC surgeons to see around corners in the brain.
Courtesy WTAE-TV
Format: RealPlayer