At Joaquim ChavesSaúde Medical Units you will find Neurosurgery specialists. This specialty focuses on diagnosis and surgical treatment of Central Nervous System, Peripheral Nervous System and Spine pathologies, concerning all age groups.
The most frequent neurosurgical pathology are spine diseases, especially fractures, disc herniations and adult spinal cord injuries.
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Neurosurgeons are prepared to perform different conventional surgical techniques and currently have at their service recent techniques such as radiosurgery. This technique is used in the treatment of various pathologies:
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Intracranial Vascular Lesions and its consequences (aneurysms, arteriovenous malformation AVM,haemorrhage, hematoma)
Reparative and reconstructive surgery, especially skull defects, fistulas and cranioplasty (due to bone loss in traumatic lesions)
Infectious diseases (brain abscess, for instance), skull, brain and spine tumours
Peripheral Nerves Disorders (median, cubital, sciatic and external popliteal nerve compression, etc., tumours, neuromas)
Spine diseases (fractures, spondylolisthesis, disc herniations, stenosis or spinal cord injury)
Other nervous system pathologies: hydrocephalus, syringomyelia, epilepsy, trigeminal neuralgia, Parkinson disease
Complimentary exams are crucial in order to diagnose most clinical situations (for outpatients). They are available at Neurosurgery area of JCS units: CT, MRI, EEG, Ultrasound, Bone Scintigraphy and Bone Densitometry.
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