5-Year-Old AIIMS Delhi Patient Is World's Youngest To Undergo Awake Brain Surgery

Awake craniotomy is a neurosurgical technique and type of craniotomy that allows a surgeon to remove a brain tumor while the patient is awake to avoid brain damage.

A five-year-old girl underwent awake craniotomy (Conscious Sedation technique) surgery for left perisylvian intraaxial brain tumor at AIIMS Delhi.

She has become the youngest in the world to undergo this procedure.

She cooperated very well throughout the procedure and remained well at the end and postoperatively too.