Newsweek
01 January, 1990
At the Presbyterian-University Hospital in Pittsburgh, the patient's head frame is tightened in preparation for innovative knifeless brain surgery, using a gamma ray 'knife' to operate on weak blood vessels in danger of bursting. Conventional surgery requires up to ten days convalescence but this patient will need just one.
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