NEUROSURGERY

Brain Surgery

With the use of microscope and state-of-the-art medical technology, such as stereotactic neuronavigation and neuromonitoring, we treat brain tumors (such as meningiomas, acoustic neurinomas, gliomas, metastases), cerebral vascular diseases (the most common of which being aneurysms and arteriovenous dysplasias), hydrocephalus and head injuries.

The endoscopic removal of pituitary adenomas through the nose, without any visible external surgical incision, is particularly worth mentioning, as is the possibility to perform stereotactic biopsies (taking pathological tissue by using a minimally invasive technique) which may provide an answer to difficult diagnostic questions and enable us to choose the best possible treatment option for our patient.

Spine Surgery

Using innovative techniques we can treat any disease of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine regions, including scoliosis, tumors and other lesions disc herniation, spondylolisthesis (opting for anterior or posterior spinal fusion depending on the case), spinal stenosis, myelopathy, scoliosis, lesions, and tumors. In the appropriate cases, we apply minimally invasive techniques, such as transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF), with very small surgical incisions allowing for a fast recovery, short-term hospitalization and no significant post-operative pain.

Furthermore, the possibility to perform posterior approach cervical surgery allows the patient in selected cases to avoid spinal fusion.

Functional Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Surgery

The goal functional neurosurgery is to treat conditions such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease. With highly specialized interventions and individualization of each patient case, we perform implantation of electronic stimulators, neuronal function inhibitors, or choose to cause hyper-selective damage to pathological tissue.

In properly selected patients, the results are impressive, reducing the need for pharmacotherapy and decisively improving their quality of life.

Peripheral Nerve Surgery

The prolonged use of our limbs as well as certain other rarer causes may lead to compression and damage of the peripheral nerves in the arms and legs. The most common syndrome is carpal tunnel, due to median nerve compression, in which patients suffer from pain and numbness in the hand within a certain distribution. Let it be noted that there are other nerves that may have a decompression indication due to symptoms of pain, numbness or burning sensations in the hands or feet, which indicatively but not exhaustively include the ulnar, radial, lateral femoral cutaneous, peroneal, or tibial nerves.

These are easily tolerated procedures, performed under conscious sedation, after which the patient leaves the hospital on the same day, permanently symptom-free.

SURGICAL RELIEF OF HEADACHE

Our team offers innovative treatments to those patients suffering from persistent chronic headaches who do not find relief through the usual treatment schemes.

Based on many years of experience gained in a respective Center in the USA, our surgical team identifies that subset of patients in whom the pain is due to the trapping-compression of certain nerves. These patients present with a distribution of discomforts in certain areas of the head and neck as well as specific points triggering their symptoms. In these patients, we are able to perform microsurgery (using a microscope) decompressing the nerve responsible for the headache with excellent results.

Depending on the distribution of the discomfort, we intervene either in the area above the eyebrows (supraorbital and supratrochlear nerve) the temple (zygomaticotemporal nerve) or the back of the head (occipital nerve). The nerve branches in question have mainly an aesthetic function and consequently surgery does not pose a functional problem. Patients leave the hospital the same day. Let it be noted that, outside the USA, the possibility of definitive surgical treatment for headaches is currently available in very few medical centers.