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Neurosurgery

Neurosurgery (or Neurological Surgery) is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves and extra-cranial cerebrovascular system.

Conditions

conditions treated by neurosurgeons include:

Meningitis and other central nervous system infections including abscesses

Spinal disc herniation

Cervical spinal stenosis and Lumbar spinal stenosis

Hydrocephalus

Head trauma (brain hemorrhages, skull fractures etc.)

Spinal cord trauma

Traumatic injuries of peripheral nerves

Tumors of the spine, spinal cord and peripheral nerves

Intracerebral hemorrhage such as subarachnoid hemorrhage, interdepartmental and intracellular hemorrhages

Some forms of drug-resistant epilepsy 

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Some forms of movement disorders (advanced Parkinson's disease, chorea) – this involves the use of specially developed minimally invasive stereotactic techniques (functional, stereotactic neurosurgery) such as ablative surgery anddeep brain stimulation surgery

Intractable pain of cancer or trauma patients and cranial/peripheral nerve pain

Some forms of intractable psychiatric disorders

Vascular malformations (i.e. arteriovenous malformations, venous angiomas, cavernous angiomas, capillary telangectasias) of the brain and spinal cord

Moyamoya disease