Tumor Removed Through Eye Socket in the USA

In the USA, a spinal tumor was removed through the eye socket. A 19-year-old resident of Maryland was found to have a chordoma the size of a chicken egg in the upper cervical vertebrae, and neurosurgeons decided to extract it through the eye socket. They made incisions in the patient's lower eyelid, moved the eye by a few millimeters, removed part of the maxillary bone and the walls of the eye socket, providing a pathway to the base of the skull. The operation was monitored through the right nostril while tissues were extracted through the left. In the end, everything was reinforced with titanium plates and mesh.