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more-inMADURAI: Using fluorescence colour angiography, a team of neurosurgeons and neuro-anaesthesiologists completely removed the vascular malformation from the right side brain of an 18-year-old boy who was suffering from recurrent seizures and headache for the last three years. Moreover, by using the colour angiography, the arteries and veins would be transparent and seen separately. Normally, such surgery takes 8-10 hours, but with the aid of technology, ie, the intra-operative colour angiography, it took half the time. Explaining the advantages of the high technology, he said “the intra-operative fluorescence (colour) angiography is done with ICG (Indocyanine green) using the IR 800/Flow 800 technology for complete excision of the brain AVM. For the past three years, the boy was visiting many neuro hospitals in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala..