The Neurosurgery Department delivers all types of neurosurgery for benign or malignant tumours in different areas of the brain and spinal cord, congenital cranial or spinal malformations, hydrocephalus cases in adults and children, cerebro-vascular disease, deep brain stimulation and surgical types of intracranial bleeding and infarction.
Services include:
- Treatment of trauma to the brain and head (depressed skull fractures, intracranial haematomas)
- Treatment of spinal conditions such as herniated disc prolapse of the spine (cervical, dorsal and lumbar) and spinal canal stenosis, laminectomy and fixation, pain treatment including epidural and facet joint injections and implantation of electrical devices for pain management
- Treatment of trauma of the spine including fractures and fixation
- Peripheral nerves treatment such as carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar nerve neurolysis and nerve cut injuries with nerve transplantation
- Vascular and endovacular neurosurgery
- Minimally invasive spine surgery
- Pediatric neurosurgery
Equipment includes:
- Operating microscope
- Intra operative neurophysiological monitoring
- Intra operative image guidance
- Cranial and spinal endoscopic systems
- Radiofrequency devices
- Cath lab
