Unable to move her legs and in extreme pain, a woman in her 70s was transferred to Barnes-Jewish Hospital earlier this month. A tumor had invaded her thoracic vertebrae and extended into the spinal canal, crushing her spinal cord and causing her paralysis. Experts at another hospital felt her tumor could not be surgically removed. […]
“Best Invention of 2020” now used at Washington University by one of the neurosurgeons who helped develop it
