Description

Brain and nerve surgery

Brain-Spinal-Nerve
Surgery is a branch equipped primarily on the surgical treatment of central and
peripheral nervous system diseases.

As
Anadolu Medical Center, we provide services in our Neurosurgery department for
the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases in this field.

What diseases does neurosurgery treat?

In
particular, the diagnosis and surgical treatment of benign and malignant brain
tumors, spinal cord tumors, tumors involving peripheral nerves are within this
specialty. He is responsible for the surgical treatment of conditions such
as waist and neck hernias, spinal canal stenosis (spinal stenosis), and slipped
back (spondylolisthesis), which are the most common types of spinal and spinal
cord diseases. In particular, nervous system traumas (head
traumas-traumatic brain hemorrhage, spinal cord injuries), issues that may
require urgent surgical intervention are the knowledge and responsibility of
neurosurgeons.

Surgical
treatment of congenital nervous system anomalies (such as congenital spinal
curvatures, craniosynostosis, hydrocephalus, swelling in the waist or neck as a
result of spinal cord openings) is also within the area of ​​interest of
neurosurgery. Surgical treatment of brain hemorrhages caused by aneurysm
and vascular malformation and other types of cerebral hemorrhage that require
surgery is the job of neurosurgery. In the functional neurosurgery field,
the placement of a brain pill that may be required in parkinson’s or other
movement disorders, surgical treatment of epilepsy epilepsy patients that
cannot be controlled with medication, placing a pump in extreme muscle spasms due
to established strokes, placing a nerve stimulator, surgical interventions for
pain (such as cordotomy, RF, rhizotomy) are cases treated by surgery.

Some
of these diseases mentioned above are not life-threatening urgency; After
the patient is evaluated together with experts in neurooncology, radiation
oncology, neurology, physical therapy, algology, orthopedics and psychiatry,
treatment or operation can be started with a joint decision.

In
our neurosurgery department of Anatole Medical Center; We provide services
for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases related to the brain, spine and
spinal cord in the nervous system.

Which diseases are diagnosed and treated?

Brain,
spine and spinal cord tumors

All
kinds of spinal diseases, especially waist and neck hernia

Aneurysm
(ballooning)

Arteriovenous
malformation (AVM)

Cavernoma

Diseases
that develop during the formation of the nervous system that occur with birth
(such as meningomyelocele)

Other
childhood illnesses

Hydrocephalus

Carpal
tunnel and other nerve congestion

Head,
spine and spinal cord injuries

Brain
hemorrhages