By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine A patient sits across from me in my office in West Islip. She has just been told she has a small meningioma near the base of her skull. Her surgeon — that’s me — is recommending a treatment called...
By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine It almost always starts the same way. A patient comes in for something unrelated — a persistent headache after a car accident, dizziness that wouldn’t go away, a minor fall with a confused moment. A CT or MRI...
By Symeon Missios, MD — Long Island Brain & Spine Imagine you’re sitting in a waiting room, MRI images in hand, trying to process what the doctor just told you. There’s a herniated disc at L4-L5. Or stenosis at three levels. Or degeneration that looks,...
Brain Tumor Diagnosis in a 24-Year-Old: How Timely Neurosurgery Led to a Full Recovery Late one night in December 2021, 24-year-old Christopher Brown’s girlfriend awoke to him making a noise that sounded like he was choking in his sleep. With a bit of effort, she...
