Neurosurgery is a surgical specialty that treats individuals with disorders affecting the brain, the spinal cord and spinal column, and the peripheral nerves. It involves both conservative and surgical management of neuronal and vascular interactions, chronic pain syndrome and nervous system diseases.

The specialty treats:

• Spine conditions & disorders: back pain, neck pain, neuralgia caused by spinal nerves compression
• Diseases of the brain, meninges and skull
• Diseases that affects the blood supply to the brain (e.g.: the internal carotid arteries and vertebral arteries)
• Pituitary and spinal cord disorders

Central nervous system diseases: Stroke, Parkinson's Disease, Dementia, Brain Tumors, Acoustic Neuroma, Arteriovenous Malformation, etc.

Peripheral nervous system disorders: Back Pain, Scoliosis, Sciatica, Neck Pain, Neuralgia, etc.

Brain disease
• Hydrocephalus
• Brain tumor
• Cerebral aneurysm
Pain disorder
• Chronic pain
• Trigeminal neuralgia
• Neuralgia
Headache
• Headache
• Migraine
• Tension headache
• Head injury
• Cerebral Hemorrhage
• Concussion
• Meningitis
Stroke
• Hemorrhagic stroke
• Ischemic stroke
Other
• Amnesia
• Epilepsy
• Intervertebral disc disease
• Osteoporosis
• Spinal tumour

Stroke and cerebrovascular disease treatment
• Carotid Endarterectomy
• Burr Hole
• Craniotomy and clipping of Cerebral Aneurysm
• Endovascular Embolization of Cerebral Aneurysm
• Carotid Artery Stent Insertion
Minimal Invasive Spinal Surgery
• Balloon Kyphoplasty & Vertebral Body Stent for Osteoporotic Vertebral Fracture
• Spinal Tumour Radiofrequency Ablation and Vertebral Bone Cement Augmentation
Lumbar Decompression Surgery
• Endoscopic Lumbar Foraminotomy
• Minimal Invasive Lumbar Foraminotomy
• Lumbar Laminectomy
• Lumbar Spine Discectomy
• o Transformational Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
• Microendoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
• Interlaminar Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
• Lumbar Percutaneous Lumbar Discectomy
• Spinal Fusion
• o Axial Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• O-Arm Navigation Minimal Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• o O-Arm Navigation Oblique Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
• Radiofrequency
• Radiofrequency facet denervation
• o Biaculoplasty
• Radiofrequency Denervation of the Sacroiliac Joint
Minimally Invasive Neck Surgery
• Cervical Artificial Disc Replacement surgery
• Endoscopic Cervical Foraminotomy
• Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion
• O-arm navigation posterior cervical spinal fusion
• Cervical Laminectomy
• Cervical Laminoplasty
Neuralgia treatment
• Treatment of Ulnar Nerve Compression/Elbow Tunnel Syndrome
• Hand Nerve Decompression Surgery
• Chronic neuralgia treatment
• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Radiofrequency neurolysis
• Trigeminal neuralgia treatment
• Radiofrequency Therapy for Trigeminal Neuralgia
• craniotomy for microvascular decompression of trigeminal nerve
• Brain Tumour Treatment
• Meningiomas surgery
• Radiotherapy
• Craniotomy
• Navigation guided endoscopic trans-sphenoidal excision of pituitary tumour
• Others (includes treatment for Epilepsy, cerebral palsy, and cerebral dysfunction)
• Treatment for Brain Injury
• Temporal Lobe Epilepsy surgery
• Insertion of Programmable Ventriculo-peritoneal Shunt
• Treatment for Parkinson’s Disease

Interventional Radiology Procedures

• Endovascular Embolization of cerebral aneurysm, arteriovenous malformation and dural arteriovenous fistula
• Endovascular angioplasty and stent for carotid artery stenosis and intracranial artery stenosis
• Endovascular thrombectomy and intra=arterial thrombolysis for acute stroke
• Trigeminal ganglion radiofrequency neurolysis for Trigeminal neuralgia
• Radiofrequency neurolysis of facet joint and intervertebral disc for back and neck pain
• Kyphoplasty, vertebroplasty and vertebral body stent for vertebral collapsed fractures
• Percutaneous lumbar discectomy
• Linac-based or Cyberknife stereotactic radiosurgery for brain and spine tumour and vascular lesion
• MRI guided laser interstitial thermal therapy (LITT)for tumour and functional neurosurgery

Minimal Invasive Brain and Cranial Surgery

• Navigation guided craniotomy for tumour excision
• Keyhole skull base surgery with or without endoscopic assistance for skull base tumours
• Awake craniotomy and functional brain mapping for primary brain tumours
• Selective hippocampectomy and lesionectomy for refractory epilepsy
• Transnasal endoscopic excision of pituitary and skull base tumour
• Transnasal endoscopic excision of orbital tumours
• Trans-ventricular endoscopic surgery for obstructive hydrocephalus and intraventricular tumour
• Stereotactic radiofrequency ablation for Parkinson disease, Dystonia, movement disorders and epilepsy
• Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson disease and movement disorders

Minimal Invasive Spine Surgery

• Full endoscopic cervical, thoracic and lumbar discectomy without or without intraoperative navigation
• Full endoscopic lamino-foraminotomy without or without intraoperative navigation
• Endoscopic lumbar spinal fusion
• Minimal invasive transforaminal or oblique lateral lumbar interbody fusion with or without intraoperative O-arm navigation
• Minimal invasive anterior lumbar spinal fusion
• Minimal invasive anterior cervical spinal fusion or artificial disc replacement for cervical spondylosis and prolapsed discs
• Minimal invasive microscopic excision of spinal tumours
• Minimal invasive spinal deformity correction
• Percutaneous posterior cervical spinal fusion
• Transoral decompression of craniocervical junction
• Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation of spinal metastasis

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