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COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa underwent complex and major surgery, conducted by two of the world’s leading specialists, in Cape Town, South Africa, on Monday to treat a sight-threatening condition in his left eye which has been troubling him in the past four years. The surgery was conducted at Mediclinic Cape Town, which describes itself as […]

An interdisciplinary surgical team in South Africa has developed a medical technique that reaches previously inoperable pathologies in the brain and eye called transorbital surgery. Mediclinic is the first private hospital group in Africa to offer the innovative surgery through Professor Darlene Lubbe’s work. Prof Lubbe, ENT surgeon at Mediclinic and Associate Professor in Otolaryngology at Groote Schuur […]

If you thought reaching the brain through the nose was extreme, Darlene Lubbe describes transorbital neuroendoscopic surgery (TONES) in which she uses the orbit as a surgical pathway to reach previously inaccessible areas allowing multiple trajectories of approach, improving visualisation and lesion manipulation. This new approach has resulted in the discovery of new endoscopic anatomy […]