CNS Blog
The spinal robot in our Practice. Truly incredible.
The Mazor Robot with its Renaissance Guidance System has been introduced into our Practice. The system is being utilised because it has been internationally tested and reported to be: Intuitive. Quick. Precise. Safe. It will usher in a new era of advanced spinal surgery for those who really need it. Epworth Hospital, Melbourne. CNS […]
Read MoreMultidisciplinary care in a Private Hospital setting
Many people still believe that comprehensive brain tumour treatment can only be received in the Public Hospital System or at one of the affiliated comprehensive cancer centres. Not so! At the Epworth Hospital in Richmond VIC, Australia’s largest private hospital, brain cancer and brain tumour patients also receive state-of-the-art and multidisciplinary care from leading neurosurgeons, […]
Read MoreAmazing technologies for cervical and lumbar spine reconstruction
We have a wonderful team for spinal reconstructive surgeries at the Epworth Hospital in Melbourne, and we’re using some amazing minimally invasive technologies and techniques for such procedures in symptomatic cervical and lumbar spine patients. After careful patient selection (consistent symptoms, clinical signs and imaging findings), I favour anterior procedures over posterior procedures for such […]
Read MoreThe new “Khurana Lab” at Harvard [Vikram Khurana, my younger brother]
My parents migrated to Australia in the early 1970s on an ‘immigration lottery’, with two suitcases, a two-year old (me), and the prospect of a humble income. Their first job was to help provide medical care to dozens of children with Down Syndrome on a small island in New South Wales. They instilled an understanding […]
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