What you need to know about neurosurgery?
Neurosurgery is the diagnosis, surgical management and treatment of disorders of the nervous system, and monitoring the patient's health.
The subspecialties of neurosurgery are:
• Pediatric neurosurgery;
• Neuro-oncology - treatment of tumors of the brain and spinal cord;
• Functional neurosurgery;
• Neurovascular surgery;
• Management of pathologies associated with head trauma;
• Surgical manipulations of the skull;
• Spinal cord surgery.
Neurosurgeons perform various types of operations to eliminate disorders of the central nervous system and peripheral nerves.
For example:
• Management of head and spinal trauma;
• Certain manipulations of the brain, spine, and skull to affect tumors;
• Disc herniation and other degenerative conditions;
• Infections and invasions;
• Stroke;
• Epilepsy;
• Movement disorders;
• Some psychiatric pathologies;
• Congenital malformations of the nervous system;
• Hydrocephalus, etc.
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