What is Brain-Spinal Cord-Nerve Surgery (neurosurgery)?
Cerebrospinal-Nerve Surgery is a branch primarily equipped with surgical treatment of central and peripheral nervous system diseases.
In Başkent University, we provide services for the diagnosis and treatment of all diseases in this field in our Department of Neurosurgery.
What diseases does neurosurgery treat?
Especially good and malignant brain tumors, spinal cord tumors, diagnosis and surgical treatment of tumors involving peripheral nerves are within this specialty. It is responsible for surgical treatment of diseases such as low back and neck hernias, spinal canal stenosis (spinal stenosis), low back (spondylolisthesis), which are the most common types of spinal and spinal diseases. Nervous system traumas (head traumas-traumatic brain hemorrhages, spinal cord injuries), subjects that may require urgent surgical intervention are within the knowledge and responsibility area of neurosurgeons.
Surgical treatment of congenital nervous system anomalies (such as congenital spinal curvatures, craniosynostosis, hydrocephalus, swelling that can be seen in the waist or neck as a result of spinal cord openings) is of interest in neurosurgery. Surgical treatments for brain hemorrhages resulting from an aneurysm and vascular malformation and other types of brain hemorrhage requiring surgery are neurosurgery. In the functional neurosurgery area, the insertion of a brain battery that may be required in Parkinson or other movement disorders, surgical treatment of epilepsy patients who cannot be controlled with medication, placing a nerve stimulator, surgical interventions for pain (cordotomy, RF, rhizotomy) are the cases treated by his surgery. Neck vein occlusions or stenosis (carotid stenosis) and hydrocephalus (accumulation of water in the cavities in the brain) in adults are also in the service area of neurosurgeons.
Some of these diseases mentioned above do not have a life-threatening urgency; After the patient is evaluated together with neurooncology, radiation oncology, neurology, physical therapy, algology, orthopedics and psychiatrists, treatment or operation can be initiated with a joint decision.
In Başkent University Neurosurgery department; We provide services for the diagnosis and treatment of brain, spine and spinal cord related diseases in the nervous system.
Which diseases are diagnosed and treated in our department?
Brain, spine and spinal cord tumors
All kinds of spinal diseases, especially in the back and neck hernia
Aneurysm (ballooning)
Arteriovenous malformation (AVM)
cavernous hemangioma
Diseases that develop during the formation of the nervous system that occurs with birth (such as meningomyelocele)
Other childhood diseases
Hydrocephalus
Carpal tunnel and other nerve jams
Head, spine and spinal cord injuries
Brain hemorrhages