Medical and technological innovations in the neurosurgery department are increasing rapidly. As a consequence, positive results continue to be obtained in diagnosis and treatment.
The department of neurosurgery deals with the surgical treatment of:
- Tumors that form in the tissue inside the brain or spinal cord or cause problems by putting pressure on them from the outside
- Disorders such as aneurysm (ballooning), arteriovenous malformation, cavernoma in the vessels supplying the brain tissue or the spinal cord
- Carotid stenosis (narrowing in the neck vessels)
- Disorders that develop during the formation of the nervous system at birth such as meningomyelocele
- Hydrocephalus (increase in the amount of fluid in the brain cavities)
- All kinds of spinal diseases, head and spinal cord injuries, especially herniated disc.