Pittsburgh, October 4, 2007 -- Amin Kassam, MD, chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery and director of the Minimally Invasive endoNeurosurgery Center (MINC), was featured in an October 4 segment of NBC-TV's Today Show, along with colleague Carl Snyderman, MD.

The segment profiles two boys whose brain tumors were successfully removed using Dr. Kassam and Snyderman's pioneering expanded endonasal brain surgery technique.

You can watch the segment on the MSNBC.com website.

Read more about this in a related story in Jane Ann Morrison's column in the Las Vegas Journal-Review entitled, 'Miracle kid' thanks surgeons and God for second life without tumor.