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Lars Leksell 1907 - 1986

• Since then, nearly 100,000 patients with brain tumors and vascular malformations have been treated world-wide . . . . .

• The Gamma Knife is not a knife at all...this precision device was developed in Sweden during the 1950’s by Professor Lars Leksell, a neurosurgeon, and Dr. Borje Larsson, a physicist. The first Gamma Knife treatment occurred in 1958 . . . . . . .

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