Overview
- Surgeons at Leeds Teaching Hospitals used a keyhole route through the eye socket to clip a brain aneurysm, marking the first such procedure reported in the UK.
- By working through a small cut near the eye and the outer wall of the socket, the team reached the aneurysm without opening the skull or moving brain tissue.
- The operation relied on bespoke 3D‑printed models of the patient’s anatomy and custom retractors designed with hospital engineers to plan the route and protect the eye.
- Patient Andrew Wood was discharged the next day and said he returned to his building job within weeks without pain or double vision.
- The team adapted an eye‑socket corridor first used in a 2024 tumour case, and they stress the technique suits only aneurysms in accessible locations.