The Neurosurgery Clinic specializes in the diagnosis, triage, treatment, and, when necessary, surgical management of conditions affecting the brain, spine, peripheral nerves, and nervous system. Neurosurgery involves performing surgeries and other medical interventions to treat neurological disorders and pathologies leading to such disorders.
The primary conditions treated at the Neurosurgery Clinic include:
- Brain Tumors: Removal of benign or malignant tumors from the skull and brain, along with the diagnosis of metastatic brain tumors through stereotactic biopsy.
- Spinal Disorders: Treatment of conditions such as herniated disks, spinal stenosis, degenerative spine and disk diseases, congenital spinal anomalies (e.g., spina bifida), spine deformities, and spine infections.
- Traumatic Brain and Intracranial Injuries (TBI): Urgent or subsequent surgeries required for the repair of damage caused by accidents or falls.
- Stroke and Cerebral Vascular Occlusions: Surgical or endovascular interventions for specific types of strokes or treatments before and after a stroke.
- Epilepsy: Surgical treatment for patients with seizures that cannot be controlled by medication.
- Neurovascular Diseases: Surgical and endovascular solutions for issues such as aneurysms or arteriovenous malformations (AVMs).
- Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders: Functional neurosurgical treatments like Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) or lesioning (unilateral thalamotomy-pallidotomy using radiofrequency).
- Chiari Malformations: Surgical expansion of the posterior fossa to alleviate symptoms.
- Pain Management and Treatment: Medical, conservative, palliative, minimally invasive procedures, and surgical treatments for conditions like herniated disks, paraspinal pain, spinal joint pain, cancer-related pain, neuropathic pain, or neurovascular compression syndromes (e.g., trigeminal neuralgia).
- Peripheral Nerve Diseases: Surgical treatment of traumatic peripheral nerve injuries and the diagnosis, medical management, and surgical treatment of entrapment neuropathies due to systemic diseases.
Common Services:
- Consultations: Initial evaluations for both surgical and non-surgical treatment options.
- Pre-surgical Evaluations: Diagnostic imaging studies (MRI, CT scans, electrophysiological studies) after neurological examinations, with surgical treatment plans when necessary.
- Surgery: Planning for cooperation with other specialties during surgery, when needed.
- Post-surgical Care: Monitoring recovery and managing complications following surgery.
The Neurosurgery Clinics provide comprehensive services in the treatment of all types of brain, cerebellum, brainstem, skull, spinal cord, spine, peripheral nervous system, and functional and organic diseases of the nervous system.
