Endoscope
With the endoscope we can use a special fiber optic microcamera to see inside the tissues and direct special tools for biopsies and to investigate anatomical abnormalities, opening new drainage channels of the cerebrospinal fluid (eg 3rd ventriculostomy), opening of brain cysts , removal of pituitary tumours, removal of cerebral hematomas, and even the surgical […]
Neuronavigation
Imagine a coordinate system similar to that of Earth, where every point on the patient’s skull and brain or spine is mapped. Using modern computers, we direct with special precision the special tools in the affected area and perform operations such as biopsies or removal of tumors or placement of spinal fusion materials, without causing […]
Neuromonitoring
The patient who is in depression, either in the operating room or in the intensive care unit, can not be examined neurologically and so an intracranial complication can develop without it being noticed by the doctors. However, if physical parameters such as intracranial pressure, oxygen, carbon dioxide, temperature and metabolism of brain tissue […]
Radiosurgery
This method can be used to treat many brain tumors (pituitary, acoustic neuromas, some metastases, as well as some vascular malformations, trigeminal neuralgia and other diseases. New techniques are being developed daily, relieving patients who can thus avoid open surgery, such as craniotomies, in selected cases.
Microsurgery
Just like other specialties, modern Neurosurgery often requires the use of a microscope to properly treat conditions such as slipped disk in the waist and neck, surgery for vascular lesions of the brain (aneurysms, vascular malformations, tumors), and spinal cord surgery. The use of a surgical microscope is now necessary in every […]
Developmental abnormalities of the central neural tube
If spinal convergence is not complete, a part of the meninges (meningocele) and/or the spinal cord (meningomyelitis) may be left unprotected and uncovered in the back. This condition is called spina bifida and has different grades, depending on the type of tissue missing. It is a condition that is usually surgically corrected immediately […]